Child care in black and white : working parents and the history of orphanages / Jessie B. Ramey.
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TextSeries: Publication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9780252094422
- 9781283993586
- Orphanages -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History
- Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History
- Working poor -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History
- Poor women -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History
- Race discrimination -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History
- Race relations -- History
- HV995 .C455 2012
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Institutionalizing orphans : the founding and managing women -- Raising orphans : the child care dilemma of families in crisis -- Boarding orphans : working parents' use of orphanages as child care -- Fathering orphans : gender and institutional child care -- Reforming orphans : progressive reformers and staff in the development of child care organizations -- Segregating orphans : the Home for Colored Children -- Conclusion : contesting orphans.
This innovative study examines the development of institutional childcare 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.
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