Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center

by Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner

Overview

A portrait of two important black social scientists and a broader history of race relations, this important work captures the vitality and chaos of post-war politics in New York, recasting the story of the civil rights movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415926713
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/02/1999
Edition description:	1ST ROUTLE
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

College and CUNY Graduate Center. David Rosner is Professor of History and Public Health at Columbia University and Co-Director of the Program in the History of Public Health and Medicine. Their earlier publications include Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America (1994); Slaves of the Depression: Workers' Letters about Life on the Job (1987); and Dying for Work: Workers' Safety and Health in Twentieth Century America (1989).

Table of Contents

1: The Abandonment of Harlem's Children; 2: The Northside Center for Child Development; 3: Philanthropy and Psychiatry, an Exercise in White Power; 4: Children Apart: Education and the Uses of Power; 5: “The Child, the Family, and the City”; 6: Juvenile Deliquency and the Politics of Community Action; 7: Urban Renewal and Development and the Promise of Power