American columnist and scholar Imani Perry dives deep into the history of racism and rebellion in the U.S. South.

Racial inequality and violence are embedded in the history of all U.S. states, but depictions of historical racism are most commonly set in the South.

Even though the American South played an important role in the fight for civil rights, it is usually the North that is associated with liberation and equality.

Imani Perry is an American non-fiction writer and scholar who teaches African American studies at Princeton University.

In South to America, Perry journeys across the Southern U.S., uncovering the history of race and resistance that often gets overlooked in narratives about the South.