04006nam 2200601 450 991081578380332120230126215320.01-5017-0845-71-5017-0846-510.7591/9781501708466(CKB)3710000001411124(OCoLC)961266882(MdBmJHUP)muse57116(DE-B1597)492947(DE-B1597)9781501708466(MiAaPQ)EBC4883898(Au-PeEL)EBL4883898(CaPaEBR)ebr11401416(CaONFJC)MIL1015919(EXLCZ)99371000000141112420170719h20172017 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTwo weeks every summer fresh air children and the problem of race in America /Tobin Miller ShearerIthaca, New York ;London, [England] :Cornell University Press,2017.©20171 online resource (pages cm)American Institutions and SocietyIncludes index.1-5017-0745-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexTwo 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.American institutions and society.Fresh-air charityUnited StatesAfrican American childrenSocial conditionsRace relationsUnited StatesUnited StatesRace relationsFresh-air charityAfrican American childrenSocial conditions.Race relations362.71Shearer Tobin Miller1126652MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815783803321Two weeks every summer4040314UNINA