This book is almost an exact midpoint in American cultural understandings of the South (as told by white people) and its role and impact on racial identity and relations in this country (from a white perspective). It was published in 1964 and is simultaneously earnest, over its head, and too ambitious. And it does each of these in various ways throughout. I started listening to the audiobook of this because it’s referenced in the newest Laura Lippmann novel, The Lady in the Lake, but a […]