Not alms but opportunity: the Urban League & the politics of racial uplift, 1910-1950
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1. Verfasser: Reed, Touré F. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2008
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index
The ideological origins of the Urban League -- Community development and housing, 1910-1932 -- Vocational training, employment, and job placements, 1910-1932 -- Labor unions, social reorganization, and the acculturation of Black workers, 1910-1932 -- Vocational guidance and organized labor during the New Deal, 1933-1940 -- Employment from the March on Washington movement to the Pilot Placement Project, 1940-1950 -- Housing and neighborhood work in the age of the welfare state, 1933-1950
Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Touré Reed explores the ideology and policies of the Urban League's activities in New York and Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. Reed argues that racial uplift in the Urban League reflected many of the class biases pervading contemporaneous social reform movements, resulting in an emphasis on behavioral, rather than structural, remedies to the disadvantages faced by Afro-Americans. Reed traces the Urban League's ideology to the famed Chicago School of Sociology. The Chicago School offered Leaguers power
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 254 pages)
ISBN:0807888540
1469605708
9780807888544
9781469605708

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