The South Has Got Something To Say

Abstract

Abstract:Black inhabitants of the South did not respond uniformly to the rules and folkways of Jim Crow, nor do they see its demise in quite the same way. Two recent books use the authority of testimony to demonstrate this plurality. Adolph L. Reed Jr.'s The South and Imani Perry's South to America are both outstanding contributions to an ongoing debate about how to evaluate Southern culture, identity, and politics.