Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center

ISBN-13: 9780415926713 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 326 str.

Gerald E. Markowitz; David Rosner

Opis

Both an intellectual portrait of two important black social scientists and a broader history of race relations in Harlem, this work captures the vitality and confusion of post-war progressive politics in New York. Kenneth and Mamie Clark were influential academic activists and civil rights crusaders, and their Northside Center in Harlem was an important site of integrationist thought and practice. Reading outward from the Center's various trials and triumphs, the authors recast the story of the civil rights movement.

Spis treści

1: The Abandonment of Harlem's Children; 2: The Northside Center for Child Development; 3: Philanthropy and Psychiatry, an Exercise in White Power; 4: Children Apart: Education and the Uses of Power; 5: “The Child, the Family, and the City”; 6: Juvenile Deliquency and the Politics of Community Action; 7: Urban Renewal and Development and the Promise of Power

O autorze

College and CUNY Graduate Center. David Rosner is Professor of History and Public Health at Columbia University and Co-Director of the Program in the History of Public Health and Medicine. Their earlier publications include Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America (1994); Slaves of the Depression: Workers' Letters about Life on the Job (1987); and Dying for Work: Workers' Safety and Health in Twentieth Century America (1989).