Author: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469621495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Black Neighbors
Author: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469621495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469621495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Children of the Settlement Houses
Author: Caroline Arnold
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1575052423
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Explains what a settlement house is, describes its role in the lives of poor children who live near it, and tells how the settlement house movement is still being felt today.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1575052423
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Explains what a settlement house is, describes its role in the lives of poor children who live near it, and tells how the settlement house movement is still being felt today.
Settlement Houses
Author: Michael Friedman
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781404201941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Discusses how reformers changed the face of the United States with their work on behalf of the poor and the creation of settlement houses.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781404201941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Discusses how reformers changed the face of the United States with their work on behalf of the poor and the creation of settlement houses.
The Settlement Cook Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking, American
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking, American
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Settlement House Movement Revisited
Author: Gal, John
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447354230
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book explores the role and impact of the settlement house movement in the global development of social welfare and the social work profession. It traces the transnational history of settlement houses and examines the interconnections between the settlement house movement, other social and professional movements and social research. Looking at how the settlement house movement developed across different national, cultural and social boundaries, this book show that by understanding its impact, we can better understand the wider global development of social policy, social research and the social work profession.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447354230
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book explores the role and impact of the settlement house movement in the global development of social welfare and the social work profession. It traces the transnational history of settlement houses and examines the interconnections between the settlement house movement, other social and professional movements and social research. Looking at how the settlement house movement developed across different national, cultural and social boundaries, this book show that by understanding its impact, we can better understand the wider global development of social policy, social research and the social work profession.
Settlement Houses Under Siege
Author: Michael Fabricant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231119313
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This book focuses on the externally driven difficulties of service workers and agencies in shaping services -- such as the consequences of recent conservative social policies on agency life and the way in which the present political environment influences services through privatization.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231119313
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This book focuses on the externally driven difficulties of service workers and agencies in shaping services -- such as the consequences of recent conservative social policies on agency life and the way in which the present political environment influences services through privatization.
Pluralism and Progressives
Author: Rivka Shpak Lissak
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226485027
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The settlement house movement, launched at the end of the nineteenth century by men and women of the upper middle class, began as an attempt to understand and improve the social conditions of the working class. It gradually came to focus on the "new immigrants"—mainly Italians, Slavs, Greeks, and Jews—who figured so prominently in this changing working class. Hull House, one of the first and best-known settlement houses in the United States, was founded in September 1889 on Chicago's West Side by Jane Addams and Ellen G. Starr. In a major new study of this famous institution and its place in the movement, Rivka Shpak Lissak reassesses the impact of Hull House on the nationwide debate over the place of immigrants in American society.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226485027
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The settlement house movement, launched at the end of the nineteenth century by men and women of the upper middle class, began as an attempt to understand and improve the social conditions of the working class. It gradually came to focus on the "new immigrants"—mainly Italians, Slavs, Greeks, and Jews—who figured so prominently in this changing working class. Hull House, one of the first and best-known settlement houses in the United States, was founded in September 1889 on Chicago's West Side by Jane Addams and Ellen G. Starr. In a major new study of this famous institution and its place in the movement, Rivka Shpak Lissak reassesses the impact of Hull House on the nationwide debate over the place of immigrants in American society.
American Settlement Houses and Progressive Social Reform
Author: Domenica M. Barbuto
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Contains over 230 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the men and women, institutions, and events that characterized the American Settlement Movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on the main currents of the movement.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Contains over 230 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the men and women, institutions, and events that characterized the American Settlement Movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on the main currents of the movement.
Simms ̓blue Book and National Negro Business and Professional Directory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American businesspeople
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American businesspeople
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Migration, Settlement, and the Concepts of House and Home
Author: Iris Levin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317961803
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
How do migrants feel "at home" in their houses? Literature on the migrant house and its role in the migrant experience of home-building is inadequate. This book offers a theoretical framework based on the notion of home-building and the concepts of home and house embedded within it. It presents innovative research on four groups of migrants who have settled in two metropolitan cities in two periods: migrants from Italy (migrated in the 1950s and 1960s) and from mainland China (migrated in the 1990s and 2000s) in Melbourne, Australia, and migrants from Morocco (migrated in the 1950s and 1960s) and from the former Soviet Union (migrated in the 1990s and 2000s) in Tel Aviv, Israel. The analysis draws on qualitative data gathered from forty-six in depth interviews with migrants in their home-environments, including extensive visual data. Levin argues that the physical form of the house is meaningful in a range of diverse ways during the process of home-building, and that each migrant group constructs a distinct form of home-building in their homes/houses, according to their specific circumstances of migration, namely the origin country, country of destination and period of migration, as well as the historical, economic and social contexts around migration.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317961803
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
How do migrants feel "at home" in their houses? Literature on the migrant house and its role in the migrant experience of home-building is inadequate. This book offers a theoretical framework based on the notion of home-building and the concepts of home and house embedded within it. It presents innovative research on four groups of migrants who have settled in two metropolitan cities in two periods: migrants from Italy (migrated in the 1950s and 1960s) and from mainland China (migrated in the 1990s and 2000s) in Melbourne, Australia, and migrants from Morocco (migrated in the 1950s and 1960s) and from the former Soviet Union (migrated in the 1990s and 2000s) in Tel Aviv, Israel. The analysis draws on qualitative data gathered from forty-six in depth interviews with migrants in their home-environments, including extensive visual data. Levin argues that the physical form of the house is meaningful in a range of diverse ways during the process of home-building, and that each migrant group constructs a distinct form of home-building in their homes/houses, according to their specific circumstances of migration, namely the origin country, country of destination and period of migration, as well as the historical, economic and social contexts around migration.