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15%OFFTobin Miller Shearer - Two Weeks Every Summer: Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America - 9781501707452 - V9781501707452
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Two Weeks Every Summer: Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America

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Description for Two Weeks Every Summer: Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America Hardback. Series: American Institutions and Society. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .

Two Weeks Every Summer, which is based on extensive oral history interviews with former guests, hosts, and administrators in Fresh Air programs, opens a new chapter in the history of race in the United States by showing how the actions of hundreds of thousands of rural and suburban residents who hosted children from the city perpetuated racial inequity rather than overturned it. Since 1877 and to this day, Fresh Air programs from Maine to Montana have brought inner-city children to rural and suburban homes for two-week summer vacations. Tobin Miller Shearer brings to the forefront of his history of the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
American Institutions and Society
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501707452
SKU
V9781501707452
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Ref
99-88

About Tobin Miller Shearer
Tobin Miller Shearer is Associate Professor of History and Director of African American Studies at the University of Montana. He is the author of Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries and Enter the River: Healing Steps from White Privilege to Racial Reconciliation and coauthor of Set Free: A Journey toward Solidarity against Racism.

Reviews for Two Weeks Every Summer: Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America
In this thought-provoking analysis of the Fresh Air organization, Shearer (history, Univ. of Montana) describes philanthropic attempts to provide two weeks of vacation from the "unhealthy and dangerous cities" to mostly white suburban and rural counties for mainly minority city children from the 1940s to the 1970s. Initially a summer vacation program for poor white city children in the late ... Read more

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