The New Mind of the South

In this "knowing and sensitive book" (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tracy Thompson upends stereotypes and fallacies to reveal the true heart of the American South today.

Investigative journalist Tracy Thompson spent years traveling throughout the South and discovered a place both amazingly similar to and radically different from the land she knew as a child. African Americans who left en masse for much of the twentieth century are returning in huge numbers, drawn back by a mix of ambition, family ties, and cultural memory. Though Southerners remain more churchgoing than other Americans, the evan-gelical Protestantism that defined Southern culture through the 1960s has been torn by bitter ideological schisms. Drawing on mountains of data, interviews, and a whole new set of historic archives, Thompson reveals the true character of a region still misunderstood by outsiders and even by its own people.

Author: Tracy Thompson
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 03/18/2014
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781439158470
ISBN10: 1439158479
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Regional Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Demography