Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945 - Softcover

Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807844233 ISBN 13: 9780807844236

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993

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"Black Neighbors" is social history at its best. . . . [It is] solidly grounded on empirical research and illuminated by sound theory.Clarke Chambers, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities This is an excellent book, short, well written, informative and interestingly illustrated."Labour History Review" A marvelous study.Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ""Black Neighbors" is social history at its best. . . . [It is] solidly grounded on empirical research and illuminated by sound theory.Clarke Chambers, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities" Should be required reading for . . . all social workers concerned with the linkage between personal social services and social reform."Social Service Review" An excellent new perspective on the historical development of the American settlement movement."Arkansas Historical Quarterly" "This is an excellent book, short, well written, informative and interestingly illustrated."Labour History Review"" "A marvelous study.Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"

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Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities. However, when African Americans migrating from the rural South in the early twentieth century began to replace white immigrants in settlement environs, most houses failed to redirect their efforts toward their new neighbors. Nationally, the movement did not take a concerted stand on the issue of race until after World War II. In Black Neighbors , Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn analyzes this reluctance of the mainstream settlement house movement to extend its programs to African American communities, which, she argues, were assisted instead by a variety of alternative organizations. Lasch-Quinn recasts the traditional definitions, periods, and regional divisions of settlement work and uncovers a vast settlement movement among African Americans. By placing community work conducted by the YWCA, black women's clubs, religious missions, southern industrial schools, and other organizations within the settlement tradition, she highlights their significance as well as the mainstream movement's failure to recognize the enormous potential in alliances with these groups. Her analysis fundamentally revises our understanding of the role that race has played in American social reform.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0807844233
• ISBN 13: 9780807844236
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242