In her National Book Award-winning “South to America,” Imani Perry journeys below the Mason-Dixon Line for a highly personal, poetic exploration of the region she considers her true home.
“But you know, I came to Cambridge when I was 5 years old for my mother to go to graduate school,” said the Alabama-born author and veteran African American studies professor, who returned after her undergrad at Yale to earn a J.D. and Ph.D. at Harvard in 2000. “I have this repeated movement to Cambridge over the course of my life.” … Read more at the Harvard Gazette.