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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation is a 2022 book by scholar Imani Perry, published by Harper Collins. The book received the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction. In researching the book, Perry travelled to over a dozen cities and towns in the American South, interviewing local residents, as well as documenting the histories of the locales; both distant histories as well as more contemporary.

Society & CultureSociety & Culture · medium confidenceSociety & Culture81 signalsLlm Classifier: Society & Culture -> Society & CultureKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: Travel & Place -> Travel & PlaceTravel, Exploration & Place

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for NonfictionMajor2022WinnerSecondary source
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction2023FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

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  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

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    • Mason-Dixon40%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

    65 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

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