I was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and I grew up in Massachusetts. Q: What inspired you to write this book and in what ways does the South represent the “soul of America”? Last month, Perry spoke with AAMCNews about her book and why the South’s legacy is relevant to health care today. “Your book was really a love letter to the ancestors, to my father, and to all of the patients that I have the privilege to care for,” Manning said. In a moment during the session’s question and answer period that moved some to tears, Kimberly Manning, MD, a professor at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, thanked Perry for writing so beautifully about an issue that hit home for her, as her father, a Black man living in Birmingham, Alabama, was unable to follow his dream to become a doctor. “And I think that the South has been immeasurably impoverished by the loss of so many.” “As a White Southerner, I will say, my sense has always been that it is to our eternal shame that we failed so miserably to create a more perfect union that forced people away,” added Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham, who moderated the discussion. population and to most of the country’s Black people, even after the Great Migration brought many to the North. Perry urged health care providers to resist the urge to stereotype and turn the South into the nation’s scapegoat, reminding them that the region is home to one-third of the U.S. “Those who work in the mines those who are on the battlefield those who are in the cotton fields.” And that is that our most vulnerable are the children of those who actually produce the prosperity and the greatness of the nation itself,” she said. “I was reminded to tell a truer story about the country. This characterization of the South as a separate, out-of-step stain on the nation struck Perry, a Black woman from Alabama, not only as inaccurately absolving the rest of the country from its own racism, but as an undeserved slight on the complexity of the South’s legacy and culture. “Every time I went on social media something would happen in the South … I would see obnoxious Northerners saying things like, ‘Can't we just cut that part of the country off?’” she said, addressing the audience at the final plenary session of Learn Serve Lead 2022: The AAMC Annual Meeting on Nov. When Imani Perry, JD, PhD, set out to write her book, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, she felt the need to set the story straight on the region of the United States that was her home. Authors Imani Perry, JD, PhD, and Jon Meacham discuss the complex legacy of the South at Learn Serve Lead 2022: The AAMC Annual Meeting on Nov.
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