· In “The New Mind of the South,” the Georgia-born writer Tracy Thompson pops in on various communities to explore how the region has changed over the Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. A Georgia-born journalist tries to make sense of today’s American South. Once relatively isolated and immigrant-free, the states of the Old Confederacy have changed significantly, casting off the “Confederate flag-waving, ‘Dixie’-singing school of Southern identity” and transitioning to a multiethnic society, writes Thompson (The Ghost in the House: Real Mothers Talk About Maternal Depression, . · In this “knowing and sensitive book” (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), Pulitzer Prize–finalist Tracy Thompson upends stereotypes and fallacies to reveal the true heart of the American South today. Investigative journalist Tracy Thompson spent years traveling throughout the South and discovered a place both amazingly similar to and radically different from the land she knew as a bltadwin.ru: Free Press.
A Georgia-born journalist tries to make sense of today's American South. Once relatively isolated and immigrant-free, the states of the Old Confederacy have changed significantly, casting off the "Confederate flag-waving, 'Dixie'-singing school of Southern identity" and transitioning to a multiethnic society, writes Thompson (The Ghost in the House: Real Mothers Talk About Maternal. The New Mind of the South. There are those who say the South has disappeared. But in her groundbreaking, thought-provoking exploration of the region, Tracy Thompson, a Georgia native and Pulitzer Prize finalist, asserts that it has merely drawn on its oldest tradition: an ability to adapt and transform itself. "Tracy Thompson's valuable book brings into modern times the search for Southern identity undertaken seventy years ago by W.J. Cash. With clear-eyed reporting, she shows us the multi-ethnic and more individualistic South that is emerging from the still-powerful matrix of black-white race relations, religion, and one-party politics.
A Georgia-born journalist tries to make sense of today’s American South. Once relatively isolated and immigrant-free, the states of the Old Confederacy have changed significantly, casting off the “Confederate flag-waving, ‘Dixie’-singing school of Southern identity” and transitioning to a multiethnic society, writes Thompson (The Ghost in the House: Real Mothers Talk About Maternal Depression, Raising Children, and How They Cope, , etc.). About The Book. In this “knowing and sensitive book” (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), Pulitzer Prize–finalist Tracy Thompson upends stereotypes and fallacies to reveal the true heart of the American South today. Investigative journalist Tracy Thompson spent years traveling throughout the South and discovered a place both amazingly similar to and radically different from the land she knew as a child. The New Mind of the South is a c lear-eyed, deeply considered look at the evolution of a part of the country that, more than a century after the end of the Civil War, continues to remain something of a foreign entity to rest of the nation.".
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