.imaniperry's new book, “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation,” is a cultural, historical, social, intellectual, political and personal tour.
Nikole Hannah-Jones talks about power, privilege and ‘The 1619 Project’ in advance of her L.A. Times Book Club visit.is often portrayed as a heroic narrative of Black people coming into their own by moving to places where there’s more opportunity than in the South. But you write about Birmingham that “staying alive on the grounds of your ancestors’ murder and abuse is no small matter.” Could you talk about that?writes, perhaps the most significant internal migration.
I ask this in the book: We have an answer to why people left, but not why did people stay. And it’s a personal question because my family is still overwhelmingly based in the Deep South. I think it has to do with a sense of home and connectedness to history and community. What did it mean to stay and fight? Fight in the sense of the movement, but also just to make a life, to get educated, to build schools. Homeownership rates are much higher for Black people in the South than other regions.
And having homes enables building intergenerational wealth, which white people still have way too much of the share of. I love that you made that point because there’s a great book that lays this out in terms of economic history, “.” The way that homes are valued was a matter of policy. The home that my family has was bought in the 1960s, but the appreciation of the home is not as great were it in the white neighborhood. That’s not because the home isn’t taken care of — all the homes on the block are taken care of.
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