Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America

Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin were raised in a culture of white supremacy, but their sisters reinvented themselves as radical thinkers and worked for racial justice, womens liberation, and labor rights. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall traces their stories through a century of history, social movements, and intellectual debates, demonstrating how the fraught ties of sisterhood were tested and frayed as each sister struggled to reinvent herself as a modern woman and remake the American South.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 704 pages
\n Publication date: 08 December 2020
\n Publisher: WW Norton & Co
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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 labor 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.

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 labor 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.

\n Weight: 546g\n
Dimension: 141 x 209 x 34 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780393358568\n \n