Two Weeks Every Summer : : Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America / / Tobin Miller Shearer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Shearer, Tobin Miller,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: American Institutions and Society
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

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 hos...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Knowledge, Girl, Nature
• 2. Church, Concrete, Pond
• 3. Grass, Color, Sass
• 4. Sex, Seven, Sick
• 5. Milk, Money, Power
• 6. Greeting, Gone, Good
• Epilogue
• Appendix 1. Fresh Air Organizations
• Appendix 2. Documented Fresh Air Hosting Towns, 1939–1979
• Notes
• Bibliographic Note
• Index