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

by Margaret Jarman Hagood

Overview

This study is based primarily on case records of more than one hundred white tenant farm mothers living in North Carolina, but comparisons are made with an equal number living in the Deep South. Through its scientific approach, this study serves all those who seek a better understanding of rural folks and their problems.

Originally published 1939.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780837121413
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/28/1969
Series:	Family in America Series
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

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Editorial Reviews

Those who peruse Hagood's pages will find a treasure trove not only of interpretive insights but also of anecdotal details concerning the experiences and the idioms, the foibles and the prejudices, of the white Southern masses in the 1930s. -- Mississippi Quarterly

James Tice Moore