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Book SynopsisElizabeth Findley Shores sifts through her family's scattered artifacts to understand her grandmother's life in relation to the troubled racial history of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A combination of biography, material culture analysis, social history, and memoir, this volume offers a new way of thinking about white racism.
Trade ReviewShores’s smooth and at times lyrical prose, use of abundant descriptive details, rich variety of source materials, and well-paced narrative create a coherent and moving exploration of female identity, race, and southern culture in the first half of the twentieth century."" - Jennifer Horne, author of
Tell the World You're a Wildflower and coeditor of
All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality""The concept is original, and it fits into a framework of recent scholarly interest in racial formation, whiteness, and the relationship of individual people to material culture and the built environment.
Earline’s Pink Party will be of interest to scholars exploring these areas as well as a general audience interested in the local history of the region."" - Marilyn Motz, coeditor of
Eye on the Future: Popular Culture Scholarship into the Twenty-First Century in Honor of Ray B. Browne
