Two weeks every summer : fresh air children and the problem of race in America / / Tobin Miller Shearer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910466595903321
• Autore: Shearer Tobin Miller
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 1-5017-0845-7; 1-5017-0846-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (pages cm)
• Collana: American Institutions and Society
• Disciplina: 362.71
• Soggetti: Fresh-air charity - United States; African American children - Social conditions; Race relations - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Fresh Air program the voices of the children themselves through letters that they wrote, pictures that they took, and their testimonials. Shearer ; offers a careful social and cultural history of the Fresh Air programs, giving readers a good sense of the summer experiences for both hosts and the visiting children. By covering the racially transformative years between 1939 and 1979, Shearer shows how the rhetoric of innocence employed by Fresh Air boosters largely served the interests of religiously minded white hosts and did little to offer more than a vacation for African American and Latino urban youth. In what could have been a new arena for the civil rights movement, white adults often overpowered the courageous actions of children of color. By giving white suburbanites and rural residents a safe race relations project that did not require adjustments to their investment portfolios, real estate holdings, or political affiliations, the programs perpetuated an economic order that marginalized African Americans and Latinos by suggesting that solutions to poverty lay in one-on-one acts of charity.

China in Space : The Great Leap Forward / / by Brian Harvey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910349506303321
• Autore: Harvey Brian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: 2019; Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019
• ISBN: 3-030-19588-0; 9783030195885
• Edizione: [2nd ed. 2019.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 552 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs (chiefly color)
• Collana: Space Exploration
• Classificazione: HIS008000SCI005000SCI098000TEC000000TEC002000
• Disciplina: 600; 629.420951
• Soggetti: Technology; Aerospace engineering; Astronautics; Space sciences; China—History; Popular Science in Technology; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics); History of China
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- About the Author -- Author’s Introduction -- Chapter 1: The far side of the Moon -- Chapter 2: Medieval rockets to first satellites -- Chapter 3: New rockets, launch sites and ships -- Chapter 4: Science and technology -- Chapter 5: Communications -- Chapter 6: Applications and military -- Chapter 7: Manned flight -- Chapter 8: To the Moon and Mars -- Chapter 9: China in perspective -- Glossary -- Appendix 1: Timeline of key dates in China’s space program -- Appendix 2: List of Chinese space launchings -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 2019, China astonished the world by landing a spacecraft and rover on the far side of the Moon, something never achieved by any country before. China had already become the world’s leading spacefaring nation by rockets launched, sending more into orbit than any other. China is now a great space superpower alongside the United States and Russia, sending men and women into orbit, building a space laboratory (Tiangong) and sending probes to the Moon and asteroids. Roadmap 2050 promises that China will set up bases on the Moon and Mars and lead the world in science and technology by mid-century. China’s space programme is one of the least well-known, but this book will bring the reader up to date with its mysteries, achievements and exciting plans. China has built a fleet of new, powerful Long March rockets, four launch bases, tracking stations at home and abroad, with gleaming new design and production facilities. China is poised to build a large, permanent space station, bring back lunar rocks, assemble constellations of communications satellites and send spaceships to Mars, the moons of Jupiter and beyond. A self-sustaining lunar base, Yuegong, has already been simulated. In space, China is the country to watch.