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The Efforts of Their True Friends

其他書名	African Americans and Child Welfare in New York, 1836-1930
出版	University of Minnesota, 2007
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Ko0QyaVJmAQC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This dissertation explores the experiences of African American families within New York City's child welfare system from 1836-1930. Drawing on the institutional records of the Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans (ABCO), this project examines the ways in which black families sought to navigate the welfare system available to them in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. At the same time, it explores the efforts of white officials, primarily Quakers, to provide services for dependent black children amid shifting ideas about urban child welfare, and amid growing competition for local and state resources ... This project attempts to fill significant gaps in a child welfare historiography that has largely limited its focus to white families. It also seeks to establish an historical grounding for better understanding the changing relationship between race, policy, and practice in the history of American child welfare.--From the author's abstract.