Black Migration and Poverty, Boston, 1865-1900
Author : Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
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Publisher :
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 1985
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Nina Mjagkij
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135581231
With information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American activism. Entries on both historical and contemporary organizations include: * African Aid Society * African-Americans forHumanism * Black Academy of Arts and Letters * BlackWomen's Liberation Committee * Minority Women in Science* National Association of Black Geologists andGeophysicists * National Dental Association * NationalMedical Association * Negro Railway Labor ExecutivesCommittee * Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association *Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist EpiscopalChurch * and many more.
Author : Roberta Senechal de la Roche
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 2008-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809329090
Winner of the Gustavus Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in the United States! Winner of the Illinois State Historical Society Superior Achievement Award! This detailed case study of the 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois, which began only a few blocks from Abraham Lincoln’s family home, explores the social origins of rioting by whites against the city’s African American community after a white woman alleged that a black man had raped her. Over two days rioters wrecked black-owned businesses, burned neighborhoods to the ground, killed two black men, and injured many others. Author Roberta Senechal de la Roche draws from a wide range of sources to describe the riot, identify the rioters and their victims, and challenge previous interpretations that attribute rioting to interracial competition for jobs, housing, or political influence. Written in a direct and clear style, In Lincoln’s Shadow documents a violent explosion of racial hatred that shocked the nation and reveals the complexity of white racial attitudes in the early twentieth century.
Author : Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674002760
Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.
Author : Stephanie Coontz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : 9780415915748
This collection testifies to the extraordinary variety of families in the United States, revealing that family arrangements have always been diverse and have often been in flux. Case studies describe the wide array of family forms and values, gender roles, and parenting practices that have prevailed in different times and places for different population groups. Paying special attention to the intersections and cross-currents of class, race, and ethnicity, as well as their differential impact on gender, sexuality, and personal identity, the contributors highlight the socioeconomic and cultural forces that affect the organization and internal dynamics of family life. These articles provide a variety of perspectives that nonetheless point to a common theme: the myth of family homogeneity has not merely excluded some groups; it has deformed our understanding ofallfamilies. Social policies and psychological practice must take account of the complexity, contradictions, conflicts, and accommodationsthat shape people's individual and group experience of family life. Drawing on historical, sociological, anthropological, and psychological research,American Familiesprovides an overview of the theoretical and conceptual issues involved in studying the variations and interactions among different, constantly changing, families. It also considers the social, political, and practical implications of viewing family life through the lens of multiculturalism.
Author : Peter C. Holloran
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780838632970
This study explores the origin and development of the American social welfare system. It demonstrates that the system of orphanages, child-placing agencies, reformatories, juvenile courts, and child guidance clinics established in Victorian Boston was a foundation for the New Deal and remains the basis of contemporary social work with the young.
Author : Ira Berlin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1101189894
A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of more than six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and Europe. These epic migrations have made and remade African American life. Ira Berlin's magisterial new account of these passages evokes both the terrible price and the moving triumphs of a people forcibly and then willingly migrating to America. In effect, Berlin rewrites the master narrative of African America, challenging the traditional presentation of a linear path of progress. He finds instead a dynamic of change in which eras of deep rootedness alternate with eras of massive movement, tradition giving way to innovation. The culture of black America is constantly evolving, affected by (and affecting) places as far away from one another as Biloxi, Chicago, Kingston, and Lagos. Certain to garner widespread media attention, The Making of African America is a bold new account of a long and crucial chapter of American history.
Author : S. J. Kleinberg
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813527291
Throughout American history, women's roles have been a source of controversy. Despite having to struggle to be heard or listened to, women vigorously participated in the political debates and cultural lives of American society. They responded actively to the social problems of their day, joining anti-slavery and temperance groups in the nineteenth century, only to discover that gender hindered their right to speak or act in public. Such limitations led to the women's rights movement and a long struggle for the vote and full citizenship rights.