Imani Perry is the author of seven books including her latest, the New York Times bestselling, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon Line to Understand the Soul of a Nation. She is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature, and African-American culture, and the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Imani shares with us today about her writing process, inspirations, and sweet tooth.

The Stacks Book Club selection for March is A Mercy by Toni Morrison. e will discuss the book on March 30th with Imani Perry.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find everything we talked about on Amazon.

Books

• South to America by Imani Perry
• Breathe by Imani Perry
• South to America by Imani Perry (audiobook)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Jorge Luis Borges
• The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Nell Painter
• A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres
• Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
• Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
• Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
• The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin
• Albert Murray
• Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston
• On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
• Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• Wench by by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• Kiese Laymon
• Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
• Sarah M. Broom
• The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Jason Reynolds
• May We Forever Stand by Imani Perry
• Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou
• I’ll Take My Stand introduction by Susan V. Donaldson
• Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
• A Small Place by Jamaica Kingcaid
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
• Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison

Everything Else

• “Ep. 122 Breathe by Imani Perry — The Stacks Book Club (Kiese Laymon)” (The Stacks)
• Family Search
• Ancestry.com
• 23 and Me
• Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
• “#VelshiBannedBookClub Reimagines ‘To Kill a Mockingbird'” (MSNBC)
• “Why ‘White’ should be capitalized, too” (Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post)
• Ask the Stacks
• Under the Banner of Heaven (Hulu)
• Tick Tick…Boom! (Lin Manuel-Miranda, 2021)
• Andrew Garfield
• “Why Imani Perry doesn’t like Jane Austen novels” (The New York Times)
• Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
• Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books (Philadelphia, PA)
• Harriett’s Bookshop (Philadelphia, PA)
• Charis Books and More (Decatur, GA)
• Harvard Book Store (Cambridge, MA)
• Women and Children First (Chicago, IL)
• Unabridged Bookstore (Chicago, IL)
• “Ep. 89 Staying True to Yourself with Jason Reynolds” (The Stacks)
• “Ep. 2 Exit West by Mohsin Hamid — The Stacks Book Club (Dallas Lopez)” (The Stacks)

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