New Mind of the South
Tracy Thompson
Bok Engelsk
| Utgitt | Simon & Schuster
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (272 p.)
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| Opplysninger | It's complicated -- Salsa with your grits -- The big lie -- Shadow history -- Jesusland -- The sorting out -- Atlanta -- Old times there are not forgotten.. - 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.
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| ISBN | 1-4391-6013-9
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