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Throwed Away - by Linda Flowers (Paperback)

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  • Guided by memory and experience, reading and conversations, Linda Flowers offers a perceptive and often painful rendering of the changes industrialization has brought to her native region of eastern North Carolina since 1960.
  • About the Author: Linda Flowers (1944-2000) grew up in eastern North Carolina, the daughter of tenant farmers.
  • 264 Pages
  • History, United States

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Book Synopsis



Guided by memory and experience, reading and conversations, Linda Flowers offers a perceptive and often painful rendering of the changes industrialization has brought to her native region of eastern North Carolina since 1960. Entwined with her own narrative of coming of age in the rural South is the story of the undoing of the local way of life, brought about by the demise of tenant farming. Flowers charts the progress of the first generation to make the transition from farm to factory and records their hopes and dreams of achieving a better life.
The sixties brought industrialization and sweeping changes in public schooling characterized by integration and large, consolidated school systems. Ten years later, it was apparent that neither the schools nor the factories had yet fulfilled the promise inherent in them. The children of that first generation to leave the farm struggled to find and keep even low-paying, dead-end jobs, their plight worsening with the rise of the service-oriented economy of the 1980s. As the author's interviews with students, teachers, and administrators reveal, educational innovations have not meant improvements for all, and white flight from public schools to private academies has sometimes sabotaged the goals of integration.
Flowers finds a generation of displaced families on whom long hours of shift work, low wages, and abandoned hopes have taken their toll. The factories have come and somtimes gone in eastern North Carolina, leaving behind a place and its people "throwed away."



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"A provocative and disturbing work. Linda Flowers's recollections and present-day observations reveal the human dimension of a story that is seldom told, and even then is often couched in the cold language of economic statistics. She has much to offer readers concerned by the stubborn paradoxes of the modern South, especially those of us who share her bittersweet memories of growing up 'Down East.'"--James L. Leloudis "Georgia Historical Quarterly"

"The author accurately describes a region, once self-sufficient, that initially reacted with enthusiasm to the changes brought by agri-business and industry, but experienced the concurrent decline of economic stability and security. Her narrative will make the reader laugh, and cry at times, and enable the reader to visualize the demise of tenant farming and rise of textile mills."--Jerra Jenrette "West Virginia History"

"This penetrating, perceptive study of a land and a people and the realities of the change that overtook them is written with the grace and perception of a woman whose training gave her both insight into the meaning of such change and the language with which to describe it."--Betty Hodges "Durham, NC, Herald-Sun"



About the Author



Linda Flowers (1944-2000) grew up in eastern North Carolina, the daughter of tenant farmers. She received her PhD from the University of Rochester and was a professor of English and chair of the department at North Carolina Wesleyan College. She served on the executive committee of the North Carolina Humanities Council.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 264
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Theme: State & Local
Format: Paperback
Author: Linda Flowers
Language: English
Street Date: August 17, 1992
TCIN: 1004351923
UPC: 9780870497674
Item Number (DPCI): 247-15-6605
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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