Child Care in Black and White : Working Parents and the History of Orphanages /
This innovative study examines the development of institutional childcare from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two 'sister' orphanages in Pittsburgh: the all-white United Presbyterian Orphan's Home and the all-black Home for Colored Children.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2012]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Institutionalizing orphans : the founding and managing women
- Raising orphans : the child care dilemma of families in crisis
- Boarding orphans : working parents' use of orphanages as child care
- Fathering orphans : gender and institutional child care
- Reforming orphans : progressive reformers and staff in the development of child care organizations
- Segregating orphans : the Home for Colored Children
- Conclusion : contesting orphans.