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Leaders of Their Race:

Educating Black and White Women in the New South

ISBN-13: 9780252082795
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Sarah H. Case
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Local release date: 14/10/2017
Format: Paperback 248 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ]

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Google Preview: How two schools prepared women to modernize and reunify the South

Secondary-level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah H. Case examines the transformative processes involved at two Georgia schools--one in Atlanta for African American girls and young women, the other in Athens and attended by young white women with elite backgrounds.

Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, Case's analysis shows how race, gender, sexuality, and region worked within these institutions to shape education. Her comparative approach shines a particular light on how female education embodied the complex ways racial and gender identity functioned at the time. As she shows, the schools cultivated modesty and self-restraint to protect the students. Indeed, concerns about female sexuality and respectability united the schools despite their different student populations. Case also follows the lives of the women as adult teachers, alumnae, and activists who drew on their education to negotiate the New South's economic and social upheavals.; "Case has beautifully written a strong argument about the central purpose of these schools and how they compare, with emphasis on both similarities and differences. . . . Case has a strong sense of changes over time, even as she documents continuity."--Joan Marie Johnson, author of Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Activism, 18751915; Google Preview content

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Leaders of Their Race:

Educating Black and White Women in the New South