Margaret Jarman Hagood's Mothers of the South as Sociological Documentary

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Title:	Margaret Jarman Hagood's Mothers of the South as Sociological Documentary
Authors:	Roebuck, Daire Elizabeth
Advisors:	Dr. Pamela Tyler, Committee Chair Dr. Walter Jackson, Committee Member Dr. David Zonderman, Committee Member
Keywords:	tenant farmwomen documentary Hagood
Issue Date:	20-May-2004
Degree:	MA
Discipline:	History
Abstract:	The purpose of this study is to discuss why and how Margaret Jarman Hagood's 1939 monograph, Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman, was a unique contribution to the sociological and documentary study of the rural white woman in the South during the Great Depression. Hagood's work represents a lasting document of how these women experienced the poverty of the South during the 1930s. Mothers of the South is also part of a larger intellectual and aesthetic movement during the period known as documentary. Her work is compared and contrasted with a selection of its predecessors along with how her work was unique in its focus on rural white mothers.
URI:	http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/1001
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