The Making of a Southerner (Paperback, New edition)

An autobiographical account of the inherited indoctrination of a southerner, and the forces- in today's world- which were to upset almost impregnable beliefs and tenets. Returning to her great grandfather's time in Oglethorpe, Georgia, here is a picture of slavery and bondage when Negroes were bought and sold, and where her great grandfather conducted a large slave plantation. Then the Civil War, in which her father, then a boy, was a courier; the aftermath of that war which left the country poor, its economy broken, the aristocracy unreconstructed and determined to transfer to their children the "lost cause" and the changeless code of white supremacy and black inferiority. With the world war, she found herself no longer at home with her old heritage; a trip North- the return to the South- brought further cognizance of the Negro problem that was no longer "innate" and "inevitable" of the Negro's low wages, poor job opportunities, inadequate schooling. A highly personal approach to social issues which may be read by a market which would automatically ignore more scholarly, didactic material. (Kirkus Reviews)

Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin was born into a prominent Georgia family and raised in a southern society intent on preserving the economic and racial status quo. But as a young woman working with the poor in the sand hills of South Carolina, she began to question what she had been taught. In "The Making of a Southerner," Lumpkin re-creates the South of her childhood and records the journey she took from her early instruction as a daughter of the "Lost Cause" to the liberal viewpoints she championed as an adult.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1992
First published:	February 1992
Authors:	Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
Dimensions:	222 x 146 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	280
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-1385-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Local history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Local history Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
LSN:	0-8203-1385-8
Barcode:	9780820313856

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