Two Weeks Every Summer : Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Cornell University Press,
2017.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.