
Sisters and Rebels
A Struggle for the Soul of America
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 8. December 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
704 pages
978-0-393-35856-8 (ISBN)
Description
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, working for racial justice, women's liberation and labour 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 towards our contemporary moment. By threading these women's stories through a century of history, social movements and intellectual debates, Hall makes visible forgotten sites of experimentation and creative thinking. 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 American South as a place to call home.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
35 black-and-white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-35856-8 (9780393358568)
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E-Book
05/2019
W. W. Norton & Company
€18.49
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Person
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is the founding director of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the coauthor of the prize-winning Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.