eBook Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region, and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1890-1930 (New Perspectives on the History of the South) ePub

Southern Ladies, New Women book.

Southern Ladies, New Women book. Focusing particularly on South Carolina clubs, Southern Ladies, New Women shows that white women promoted a culture of segregation in which southern equaled white and black equaled inferior. Like the United Daughters of the Confederacy, they celebrated the Lost Cause and its racial ideology. African-American clubwomen fought for the needs of their communities, struggled against Jim Crow, and demanded recognition of their citizenship.

Focusing particularly on South Carolina clubs, Southern Ladies, New Women shows that white women .

Focusing particularly on South Carolina clubs, Southern Ladies, New Women shows that white women promoted a culture of segregation in which southern equaled white and black equaled inferior. Joan Marie Johnson investigates how the desire to create a distinctive southern identity influenced black and white clubwomen at the turn of the 20th century and motivated their participation in efforts at social reform.

Joan Marie Johnson investigates how the desire to create a distinctive southern identity influenced black and white clubwomen at the turn of the 20th century and motivated their participation in efforts at social reform.

Joan Marie Johnson's Southern Ladies,New Women tells the story of black and white women's clubs in South Carolina from 1890 to 1930. The book traces the ideas and interests that drove middle-class women to become involved in club work, the kind of work they did, and the issues they dealt with. Class, race, and identity were key to the formation and growth of clubs for women in South Carolina during this period

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Series: New Perspectives on the History of the South (2004).

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Joan Marie Johnson is a historian and author. She is the author of Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Activism, 1875-1915 and Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1898-1930. She is the author of numerous books and articles on American’s women history, race, social reform, education, and philanthropy.

Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region and Clubwomen in South . Johnson has written extensively about women of the American South.

Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1890-1930, University Press of Florida (Gainesville, FL), 2004.