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Sisters and rebels : a struggle for the soul of America / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]Edition: First editionDescription: x, 690 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393047998
  • 0393047997
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Contents:
Introduction -- "Southerners of my people's kind" -- "Lest we forget" -- "Contrary streams of influence" -- "The inner motion of change" -- "Far-thinking...professional-minded" women -- "A clear show-down" -- "Getting the world's work done" -- "Writing and New York" -- "Kok-I House" -- "The heart of the struggle" -- Culture and the crisis -- Miss Lumpkin and Mrs. Douglas -- "Heartbreaking gaps" -- Radical dreams, fascist threats -- Sisters and strangers -- "At the threshold of great promise" -- Wilderness years -- Expatriates return -- Endings.
Summary: "Three sisters from the South wrestle with orthodoxies of race, sexuality, and privilege. Born in late nineteenth-century Georgia, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. Their father was a member of the KKK; the older girls performed at rallies celebrating the 'Lost Cause.' While Elizabeth remained in the South, Grace and Katharine, moved by liberal Christianity and emboldened by the YWCA, became impassioned activists for social justice and groundbreaking progressive writers. In bohemian Greenwich Village and not-so-bluestocking Northampton, Massachusetts, they helped to forge a tradition of left-leaning, antiracist, and feminist dissent, while powerfully asserting their identity as Southern women. Distinguished historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall places these ordinary yet extraordinary women in the center of American intellectual history, and explores how each sister came to different understandings of race, gender, and the South; committed, albeit in radically different ways, to remaking the region as a place they could continue to call home"-- Provided by publisher.
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Born into a former slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin were raised in a culture of white supremacy. While Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her sisters reinvented themselves as radical thinkers, organizing for racial justice, women's liberation, and labor rights. National Humanities Award?winning historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall traces the sisters from their childhood in the Deep South to the progressive zeal of the early twentieth century and toward our contemporary moment.

By threading these women's stories through a century of history, social movements, and intellectual debates, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall makes visible forgotten sites of experimentation and creative thinking on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. She demonstrates how the fraught ties of sisterhood were tested and frayed as each sister struggled, albeit in radically different ways, to reinvent herself as a modern woman, grapple with a legacy of racism, and remake the South as a place to call home.

"Three sisters from the South wrestle with orthodoxies of race, sexuality, and privilege. Born in late nineteenth-century Georgia, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. Their father was a member of the KKK; the older girls performed at rallies celebrating the 'Lost Cause.' While Elizabeth remained in the South, Grace and Katharine, moved by liberal Christianity and emboldened by the YWCA, became impassioned activists for social justice and groundbreaking progressive writers. In bohemian Greenwich Village and not-so-bluestocking Northampton, Massachusetts, they helped to forge a tradition of left-leaning, antiracist, and feminist dissent, while powerfully asserting their identity as Southern women. Distinguished historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall places these ordinary yet extraordinary women in the center of American intellectual history, and explores how each sister came to different understandings of race, gender, and the South; committed, albeit in radically different ways, to remaking the region as a place they could continue to call home"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- "Southerners of my people's kind" -- "Lest we forget" -- "Contrary streams of influence" -- "The inner motion of change" -- "Far-thinking...professional-minded" women -- "A clear show-down" -- "Getting the world's work done" -- "Writing and New York" -- "Kok-I House" -- "The heart of the struggle" -- Culture and the crisis -- Miss Lumpkin and Mrs. Douglas -- "Heartbreaking gaps" -- Radical dreams, fascist threats -- Sisters and strangers -- "At the threshold of great promise" -- Wilderness years -- Expatriates return -- Endings.

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