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Mississippi: An American Journey

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  To most Americans, Mississippi isn’t a state but a scar, the place where segregation took its ugliest form and struck most savagely at its challengers.  But to many Americans, Mississippi may be home.  And it’s this paradox, with all its overtones of history and heartache, that Anthony Walton—whose parents escaped Mississippi for the relative civility of the Midwest—explores on this resonant and disquieting work of go back and forth writing, history, and memoir.

Traveling from the Natchez Trace to the yawning cotton fields of the Delta and from plantation houses to air-conditioned shopping malls, Walton challenged us to look Mississippi’s memories of comfort alongside its legacies of slavery and the Klan.  He weaves within the stories of his circle of relatives, in addition to the ones of patricians and sharecroppers, redneck demagogues and martyred civil rights workers, novelists and bluesmen, black and white. Mississippi is a national saga in brilliant microcosm, splendidly written and profoundly moving.

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