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Author Shearer, Tobin Miller, 1965- author.

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

Publication Info. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series American institutions and society
American institutions and society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A reckoning of childhood, race, and neoliberalism -- Knowledge, girl, nature: fresh air tensions prior to WWII -- Church, concrete, pond: how innocence got disrupted -- Grass, color, sass: how the children shaped fresh air -- Sex, seven, sick: how adults kept the children in check -- Milk, money, power: how fresh air sold their programs -- Greeting, gone, good: racialized reunion and rejection in fresh air -- Epilogue: changing an innocence formula -- Fresh air organizations -- Hosting towns by state.
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Subject Fresh-air charity -- United States.
Fresh-air charity.
United States.
African American children -- Social conditions.
African American children -- Social conditions.
African American children.
Race relations.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Shearer, Tobin Miller. Two weeks every summer. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2017 9781501707452 (DLC) 2016047308
ISBN 9781501708466 (electronic book)
1501708465 (electronic book)
9781501708459
1501708457
9781501707452