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Two weeks every summer : fresh air children and the problem of race in America / Tobin Miller Shearer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shearer, Tobin Miller, 1965- author.
- Series:
- American institutions and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fresh-air charity--United States.
- Fresh-air charity.
- African American children--Social conditions.
- African American children.
- Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 248 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- A reckoning of childhood, race, and neoliberalism
- Knowledge, girl, nature: fresh air tensions prior to WWII
- Church, concrete, pond: how innocence got disrupted
- Grass, color, sass: how the children shaped fresh air
- Sex, seven, sick: how adults kept the children in check
- Milk, money, power: how fresh air sold their programs
- Greeting, gone, good: racialized reunion and rejection in fresh air
- Epilogue: changing an innocence formula
- Fresh air organizations
- Hosting towns by state.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shearer, Tobin Miller. Two weeks every summer.
- ISBN:
- 9781501707452
- 1501707450
- OCLC:
- 961213971
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