Millways of Kent (Southern Classics) - Softcover

Morland, J.Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570037264 ISBN 13: 9781570037269

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 2008

Synopsis

The Kent Trilogy, consisting of Blackways of Kent (1955), Millways of Kent (1958), and the previously unpublished Townways of Kent, forms a remarkable southern ethnography that maps the social stratification of the Piedmont mill town of York, South Carolina, in the late 1940s, after the effects of the Great Depression and preceding the coming civil rights era. In 1946 the University of North Carolina's Institute for Research in Social Science commissioned a series of southern community studies under the direction of anthropologist John Gillin from which these volumes resulted. This Southern Classics edition is expanded with a new preface by John Shelton Reed on the origins and impact of the Kent Trilogy and a new introduction by Dan Huntley assessing the lasting importance of Morland's telling case study. The volume is further supplemented with a 1995 interview with Morland and his wife detailing their experiences with the "Kent" research and including photographs from the period.

About this title

About the Author

John Kenneth Morland was a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. The son of a York cotton mill owner, Dan Huntley is a reporter and editor for the Charlotte Observer.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570037264
• ISBN 13: 9781570037269
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376