Earline's Pink Party - The Social Rituals and Domestic Relics of a Southern Woman

Elizabeth Findley Shores sifts through her family's scattered artifacts to understand her grandmother's life in relation to the troubled racial history of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A combination of biography, material culture analysis, social history, and memoir, this volume offers a new way of thinking about white racism.

About the author

A native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Elizabeth Findley Shores is the author of On Harper's Trail: Roland McMillan Harper, Pioneering Botanist of the Southern Coastal Plain as well as the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on early childhood education services. She lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Summary

Elizabeth Findley Shores sifts through her family's scattered artifacts to understand her grandmother's life in relation to the troubled racial history of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A combination of biography, material culture analysis, social history, and memoir, this volume offers a new way of thinking about white racism.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth F. Shores, Elizabeth Findley Shores
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9780817319342
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1934-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 231 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 683 g
• Illustrations: 22 black & white figures, 1 map
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories