Making of a Southerner

In this book, the author recreated the South of her childhood and recorded the journey she took from her early instruction as a daughter of the 'Lost Cause' to the liberal viewpoints she championed as an adult.

About the author

KATHARINE DU PRE LUMPKIN (1897-1988) was a sociologist and activist who studied, taught, and did research at a number of schools, including Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Mills College, and Wells College. Although she is best known for The Making of a Southerner, Lumpkin published a number of other books: The Family: A Study of Member Roles; Shutdowns in the Connecticut Valley: A Study of Worker Displacement in the Small Industrial Community; Child Workers in America (with Dorothy W. Douglas); The South in Progress; and The Emancipation of Angelina Grimke. She is an inductee to the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.

Product details

• Authors: Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1992
• EAN: 9780820313856
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-1385-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 215 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Brown Thrasher Books
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories