Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman - Softcover

Hagood, Margaret Jarman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813916968 ISBN 13: 9780813916965

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 1996

Synopsis

In 1937 Margaret Jarman Hagood visited 254 tenant houses in the Carolina Piedmont, Georgia and Alabama, talking with and listening to southern mothers. This text records not only the results of her work, but the voices, attitudes and expectations of the people interviewed.

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Review:

"No recent publication on the South is more welcome than this book."-Social Forces

?No recent publication on the South is more welcome than this book.?-Social Forces

About the Author:

Margaret Jarman Hagood (1907-1963) headed the Farm Population section, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, from 1942 to 1952 and was chief of the Farm Population branch, U.S. Department of Agriculture, from 1952 to 1962. Her other publications include the now-standard introductory text Statistics for Sociologists. Anne Firor Scott is W.K. Boyd Professor of History Emerita at Duke University and former president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0813916968
• ISBN 13: 9780813916965
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262