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Child Care in Black and White

Name: Child Care in Black and White
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
SKU: 9780252079634
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252079634

Working Parents and the History of Orphanages

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By Jessie B. Ramey
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Release Date: October 14, 2013
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Pages: 296

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This innovative study examines the development of institutional child care 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. Drawing on quantitative analysis of the records of more than 1,500 children living at the two orphanages, as well as census data, city logs, and contemporary social science surveys, this study raises new questions about the role of child care in constructing and perpetrating social inequality in the United States.

This book is an important contribution to the history of child welfare policy. Jessie B. Ramey's research illustrates the role racial segregation played in a northern industrialized city in child welfare policies for dependent children whose parents turned to orphanages for help.--Kriste Lindenmeyer, author of The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s

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