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This admonition was recorded by British born journalist Jessica Mitford, writing in the early 1960s as she set out to “record impressions of the contemporary white (American) South” (2010, p. 77). In this encounter, we may observe the undercurrent of unease embedded in this mother’s support for her “Southern belle” (2010, p. 69) daughter’s participation in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Kwok, J., Selman, R.L. (2017). From Informed Social Reflection to Civic Engagement. In: García-Cabrero, B., Sandoval-Hernández, A., Treviño-Villareal, E., Ferráns, S.D., Martínez, M.G.P. (eds) Civics and Citizenship. Moral Development and Citizenship Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-068-4_2
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