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"Millways" Remembered: A Conversation with Kenneth and Margaret Morland

"Millways" Remembered: A Conversation with Kenneth and Margaret Morland "Millways" Remembered: A Conversation with Kenneth and Margaret Morland There are three major versions or styles of living in Kent: that of the "town" whites, that of the "poor white" mill villagers, and that of the Negroes. These three groups form the larger society of Kent. Each exhibits a distinctive organization of customs, attitudes, and values. Each is a subculture-- a variation of American culture, Southern Piedmont style. -- Hylan Lewis, Blackways ofKent (1955) In the late 1940s, with support from the Rosenwald Fund and the University of North Carolina's Institute for Research in Social Science, anthropologist John Gillin directed a series ofsouthern community studies, including a remarkable study of York, South Carolina, a small town thirty miles south of Charlotte. In 1948 and 1949 three graduate students--one black, two white--moved to the town they called "Kent," and each immersed himselfin one of York's three subcultures. As a result ofthese labors, we have a composite picture of York at midcentury unequalled for any other southern (probably any other American) town, a picture particularly impressive for its attention to the town's subordinated groups: African Americans and white millworkers. Ralph Patrick Jr. lived among the "town" whites of York and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

"Millways" Remembered: A Conversation with Kenneth and Margaret Morland

Reed, John Shelton.
Southern Cultures , Volume 1 (2) – Jan 4, 1995
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"Millways" Remembered: A Conversation with Kenneth and Margaret Morland There are three major versions or styles of living in Kent: that of the "town" whites, that of the "poor white" mill villagers, and that of the Negroes. These three groups form the larger society of Kent. Each exhibits a distinctive organization of customs, attitudes, and values. Each is a subculture-- a variation of American culture, Southern Piedmont style. -- Hylan Lewis, Blackways ofKent (1955) In the late 1940s, with support from the Rosenwald Fund and the University of North Carolina's Institute for Research in Social Science, anthropologist John Gillin directed a series ofsouthern community studies, including a remarkable study of York, South Carolina, a small town thirty miles south of Charlotte. In 1948 and 1949 three graduate students--one black, two white--moved to the town they called "Kent," and each immersed himselfin one of York's three subcultures. As a result ofthese labors, we have a composite picture of York at midcentury unequalled for any other southern (probably any other American) town, a picture particularly impressive for its attention to the town's subordinated groups: African Americans and white millworkers. Ralph Patrick Jr. lived among the "town" whites of York and

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