Two weeks every summer : Fresh Air children and the problem of race in America /

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Two Weeks Every Summer, which is based on extensive oral history interviews with former guests, hosts, and administrators in Fresh Air programs, opens a new chapter in the history of race in the United States by showing how the actions of hundreds of thousands of rural and suburban residents who hos...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shearer, Tobin Miller, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Colección:American institutions and society.
Temas:
Fresh-air charity > United States.
African American children > Social conditions.
Race relations.
Œuvres de bienfaisance de plein air > États-Unis.
Enfants noirs américains > Conditions sociales.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
African American children > Social conditions
Fresh-air charity
Race relations
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a reckoning of childhood, race, and neoliberalism
  • Knowledge, girl, nature: Fresh Air tensions prior to World War II
  • Church, concrete, pond: how innocence got disrupted
  • Grass, color, sass: how the children shaped Fresh Air
  • Sex, seven, sick: how adults kept the children in check
  • Milk, money, power: how Fresh Air sold its programs
  • Greeting, gone, good: racialized reunion and rejection in fresh air
  • Epilogue: changing an innocence formula
  • Appendix 1. Fresh Air organizations
  • Appendix 2. Documented Fresh Air hosting towns, 1939-1979.

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