![]() ![]() ![]() Naipul's "A Turn in the South" from 1989 and Albert Murray's gonzo 1972 memoir-travelogue-critique "South to a Very Old Place." Perry, 49, roams through Appalachia Birmingham, Ala. The book is inspired by the writing of James Baldwin, V.S. 25, digs deeply into the South's fecund soil, as Perry elegantly weaves stories - historical and personal - in a search for a better understanding of the region its legacy of slavery, racial violence, injustice and Jim Crow its myriad contradictions and its undeniable influence on the rest of the country and beyond. "South to America," which was published Jan. ![]() The program will honor Maurice Smith, chief of staff for former Gov. Perry, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, will discuss her book, "South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation."Ĭherisse Jones-Branch, graduate school dean and Vaughn Endowed Professor of History at Arkansas State University, will moderate. Author Imani Perry will be featured Thursday in the latest installment of Central Arkansas Library System's Speaker Series. ![]()
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