| The New Mind of the South Contributor(s): Thompson, Tracy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1439158479 ISBN-13: 9781439158470 Publisher: Free Press OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Regional Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Demography |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.55 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thompson, Tracy: - Tracy Thompson is a reporter and essayist who has written about subjects ranging from psychiatry to law to the Civil War. She is the author of The Beast: A Reckoning with Depression and The Ghost in the House. She lives just outside Washington, DC, with her husband, their two daughters, one tabby cat, and an enthusiastic beagle named Max. |
