Southern Girls by Meryl Perloff (Second Edition)This second edition is a scanned reproduction of the unique original hard bound book. Growing up in the Deep South in the 1930s, African Americans, then called Negroes, were considered to be lower in status than their Caucasian counterparts. Discrimination in its mildest form embodied a sense of superiority, and limitations for Negroes were customary in all facets of life. The term "women" was reserved for black adult females, while white adult