Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury In this thought-provoking memoir, Pulitzer Prize finalist Drew Gilpin Faust chronicles her coming-of-age in a Southern family and her growth into…
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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
In this thought-provoking memoir, Pulitzer Prize finalist Drew Gilpin Faust chronicles her coming-of-age in a Southern family and her growth into consciousness in postwar America.To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world transformed by warfare, by unspeakable examples of inhumanity, by nuclear threats, by polarized national alliances and by destabilized social hierarchies. For young Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of a combination of racial privilege and female subordination proved both Two wars and the Depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions--not only on a global stage for nations and peoples, but also in very personal and domestic domains.To grow up a little white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was to be expected to adopt a willful blindness to the cruelties of race and the constraints of gender.