The Making of a Southerner
Title Details
Pages: 280
Trim size: 5.500in x 8.500in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 02/01/1992
ISBN: 9-780-8203-1385-6
List Price: $34.95
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• Learn more about Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin at the New Georgia Encyclopedia
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Like the autobiographical writings of such other atypical white southern women as Lillian Smith and Virginia Durr, Lumpkin's volume is one of illuminating power. She penetrates the contradictions, myths, and ironies so deeply embedded in southern culture—in its religion, its economy, its race relations, and its gender conventions. Hers is the poignant testimony of a woman steeped in traditions peculiar to her class and region, who through education and will removed the cataracts of racism, curing herself of the blindness that hid pervasive and unrelenting white poverty and the grinding exploitation of agricultural, factory, and mill workers.
—Darlene Clark Hine, from the foreword to The Making of a Southerner
We need to have this book around again to remind us what it took to be what Katharine Lumpkin was in her time. Her book is no longer fond prophecy and faint hope; it is a record of the route we had to travel.
—Louis D. Rubin Jr.