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Race, Hull-House, and the University of Chicago - A New Conscience Against Ancient Evils (Hardcover)
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Race, Hull-House, and the University of Chicago - A New Conscience Against Ancient Evils (Hardcover)
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Connecting the views of the Hull-House and early Chicago
sociologists to issues of race and gender, Deegan offers a new
perspective on race relations in Chicago from 1892 until 1960. She
challenges the assumption that race relations activists had to
choose either to align with W.E.B. DuBois or Booker T. Washington
if they studied American race relations. Questioning the
"established accounts" concerning the so-called Chicago way of
thinking and doing sociology at the University of Chicago, she
expands the role of the Chicago School of Race Relations by
including more scholars, more political action, and more years
within its compass. By examining the relationship between
Hull-House, female and African-American sociologists, and the early
Chicago school, Deegan dispels some of the common misconceptions
that view Hull-House, especially, as an elitist, prejudiced, and
moralistic institution. Chicago was a tumultuous place in 1892:
immigration, industrialization, urbanization, and corruption
created an atmosphere of profound change. Rising to the challenge,
Jane Addams and her social settlement Hull-House saw hope for a new
moral order and worked closely with friends and colleagues at the
newly opened University of Chicago. Both institutions became
centers for the study of society, including the peculiar nature of
American race relations. Here, Deegan connects the views of the
Hull-House and early Chicago sociologists to issues of race and
gender, especially to the now-famous accounts of the Chicago school
of sociology and its subgroup, the Chicago School of Race
Relations. This thoughtful and carefully articulated analysis sheds
light on the ways in which institutions and the peopleassociated
with them helped to shape sociological thought about race relations
in particular and sociology in general.
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