Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South

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Titel: Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South
Autor/en: Ann Short Chirhart
ISBN: 0820326690
EAN: 9780820326696
Autor/en: Ann Short Chirhart
ISBN: 0820326690
EAN: 9780820326696
New.
Sprache: Englisch.
Sprache: Englisch.
UNIV OF GEORGIA PR
1. Februar 2005 - kartoniert - 352 Seiten
As turbulent social and economic changes swept the South in the first half of the twentieth century, education became the flashpoint. Ann Short Chirhart's study is the first to analyze such modernizing events in Georgia. She shows how these changes affected the creation of the state's public school system and cast its teachers in a crucial role as mediators between transformation and tradition. Depicting Georgia's steps toward modernity through teachers' professional and cultural work and the educational reforms they advocated, Chirhart presents a unique perspective on the convergence of voices across the state calling for reform or continuity, secularism or theology, equality or enforced norms, consumption or self-reliance. Although most teachers, black and white, shared background rooted in localism and evangelical Protestantism, attitudes about race and gender kept them apart. African American teachers, individually and collectively, redefined traditional beliefs to buttress ideals of racial uplift and to press for equal access to public services. White women adapted similar beliefs in different ways to enhance their efforts to train greater numbers of white students for professional and wage labor. Torches of Light is based on such sources as government archives, manuscript collections, and interviews with teachers. As Chirhart examines the ideas over which Georgians clashed, she also show how those ideas were embodied in New Deal and U.S. Department of Agriculture programs, the political activities of the black Georgia Teachers and Educators Association, and the Georgia legislature's 1949 Minimum Foundation Act. Through two world wars and the Great Depression, teachers sought toreconcile clashing beliefs not only to renegotiate class, race, and gender roles but also to enhance their own professionalism and authority.
Ann Short Chirhart is an associate professor of history at Indiana State University. Her books include "Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South," and "Georgia Women, Vol. 1" (both Georgia).
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