The edited collection titled Children of the Changing South: Accounts of Growing Up During and After Integration, includes 18 memoirs about growing up in the South from the late 1950s through the early 1990s, and is being published by McFarland & Co. The book is listed in the US History section of their Fall 2011 catalog, and their release date is January 17, 2012.
The contributors are Jacqueline Wheelock, Lean'tin Bracks, Jim Grimsley, Becky McLaughlin, Lillie Anne Brown, Stephanie Powell Watts, Glenis Redmond, Ashley Day, Kyes Stevens, Vallie Lynn Watson, Patricia Hoskins, Ravi Howard, Dawne Shand, Ray Morton, Kathleen Rooney, Leslie Haynsworth, Georgene Bess Montgomery, and Camika Spencer. The afterword was written by David Molina.
Children of the Changing South focuses on stories of formative experiences in the South from a variety of perspectives, a span of generations, and a breadth of geographic locations. The book's introduction asks the reader to view the memoirs through a lens of modern multiculturalism, rather than through a strictly historical lens, perhaps to gain perspective both on the movement and post-movement periods and on modern Southerners who grew up during a time when uncertainty about social and political matter was the norm.





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