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One Book, One Pass announces 2025 book selection

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Imani Perri

 

One Book, One Pass, the annual community reading project, begins this fall with its 2025 book selection, South To America:  A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon Line to Understand the Soul of America, by Imani Perry. The book received the 2022 National Book Award for non-fiction.

Over the next several months, the community is encouraged to read the book and engage in book discussions, panel discussions, and other programs. Program and events dates will be announced in the coming weeks.

Professor Perry earned her Ph.D. in American studies from Harvard University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center and a BA from Yale College in literature and American studies. She is appointed jointly as Professor in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and in African and African American Studies at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2023 and is the distinguished author of eight highly acclaimed books.

The One Book One Pass selection, South to America, is described by Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, as “an elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South – and thus of America – by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time.”

The project will culminate in the Author Presentation by Professor Perry on Thursday, October 16, at 6 p.m. at the Randolph Center at 315 Clark Avenue.

Copies of South To America:  A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon Line To Understand the Soul of America are available for check out at the Pass Christian Library or for purchase at Pass Christian Books.  For more information, call the library at 228-452-4596, or email PassChristianLibrary@gmail.com. More information about the One Book One Pass Program is also available on the project’s Facebook page.

 

The Pass Post One Book, One Pass, the annual community reading project, begins this fall with its 2025 book selection, South To America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon Line to Understand the Soul of America, by Imani Perry. The book received the 2022 National Book Award for non-fiction. Over the next several months, the community is encouraged to read the book and engage in book discussions, panel discussions, and other programs. Program and events dates will be announced in the coming weeks. Professor Perry earned her Ph.D. in American studies from Harvard University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center and a BA from Yale College in literature and American studies. She is appointed jointly as Professor in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and in African and African American Studies at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2023 and is the distinguished author of eight highly acclaimed books. The One Book One Pass selection, South to America, is described by Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, as “an elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South – and thus of America – by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time.” The project will culminate in the Author Presentation by Professor Perry on Thursday, October 16, at 6 p.m. at the Randolph Center at 315 Clark Avenue. Copies of South To America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon Line To Understand the Soul of America are available for check out at the Pass Christian Library or for purchase at Pass Christian Books. For more information, call the library at 228-452-4596, or email PassChristianLibrary@gmail.com. More information about the One Book One Pass Program is also available on the project’s Facebook page.

South To America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon Line to Understand the Soul of America

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