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Children, race, and power : Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center
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"Both an intellectual biography of the Clarks and a history of the influence of their Northside Center in Harlem." The Clarks are known for their studies of African American children given black an...
"Both an intellectual biography of the Clarks and a history of the influence of their Northside Center in Harlem." The Clarks are known for their studies of African American children given black and white dolls.
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- Creator
- Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner
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- Language
- English
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- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1996
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- xvii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0813916879, 9780813916873
- OCLC
- ocm34413228
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-289) and index.
- 1. The Abandonment of Harlem's Children -- 2. The Northside Center for Child Development -- 3. Philanthropy and Psychiatry, an Exercise in White Power -- 4. Children Apart: Education and the Uses of Power -- 5. "The Child, the Family and the City" -- 6. Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Community Action -- 7. Urban Renewal and Development and the Promise of Power
Subjects
- Northside Center for Child Development.
- Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005.
- Clark, Mamie Phipps.
- Social work with African American children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
- Social work with minorities -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
- Community mental health services for children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
- African American children -- Services for -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions.