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Angels of Mercy

White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum

By: William Seraile

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Angels of Mercy

White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum

By: William Seraile

William Seraile uncovers the history of the colored orphan asylum, founded in New York City in 1836 as the nation’s first orphanage for African American children. It is a remarkable institution that is still in the forefront aiding children. Although no longer an orphanage, in its current incarnation as Harlem-Dowling West Side Center for Children and Family Services it maintains the principles of the women who organized it nearly 200 years ago. The agency weathered three wars, two major financial panics, a devastating fire during the 1863 Draft Riots, several epidemics, waves of racial prejudice, and severe financial difficulties to care for orphaned, neglected, and delinquent children. Eventually financial support would come from some of New York’s finest families, including the Jays, Murrays, Roosevelts, Macys, and Astors. While the white female managers and their male advisers were dedicated to uplifting these black children, the evangelical, mainly Quaker founding managers also exhibited the extreme paternalistic views endemic at the time, accepting the advice or support of the African American community only grudgingly. It was frank criticism in 1913 from W. E. B. Du Bois that highlighted the conflict between the orphanage and the community it served, and it wasn’t until 1939 that it hired the first black trustee. More than 15,000 children were raised in the orphanage, and throughout its history letters and visits have revealed that hundreds if not thousands of “old boys and girls” looked back with admiration and respect at the home that nurtured them throughout their formative years. Weaving together African American history with a unique history of New York City, this is not only a painstaking study of a previously unsung institution of black history but a unique window onto complex racial dynamics during a period when many failed to recognize equality among all citizens as a worthy purpose.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823241629

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9780823241620

Fred Cumberland

Building the Victorian Dream

By: Geoffrey Simmins,Frederic William Cumberland

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Fred Cumberland

Building the Victorian Dream

By: Geoffrey Simmins,Frederic William Cumberland

Fred Cumberland (1821-81) a Canadian Renaissance man: an architect, railway manager and politician, whose life and work changed Victorian Toronto's urban landscape.

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372

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University of Toronto Press

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0802006795

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9780802006790

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 7

Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

By: Peter J Kitson,William Baker

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Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 7

Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

By: Peter J Kitson,William Baker

A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000561283

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Knowledge, Competence and Communication

Chomsky, Freire, Searle, and Communicative Language Teaching

By: William Henry Walcott

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Knowledge, Competence and Communication

Chomsky, Freire, Searle, and Communicative Language Teaching

By: William Henry Walcott

InKnowledge, Competence, and Communication, author William H. Walcott debates the meaning of creating equitable and critical instructional practices by exploring diverse representations of knowledge. He covers both historically important topics and current issues: such as colonialism, multiculturalism, gender and language learning, and popular culture. He then presents a systematic and painstaking assessment of Noam Chomsky’s and Paulo Freire’s theories of knowledge and their educational relevance. In the end, Walcott makes his case for the Freireian approach-conscientizacao; it is the Freireian, with its sociological connection (necessitated by the global context of inequality), which, he believes, needs take precedence as a pedagogical practice.

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Black Rose Books Ltd.

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1551642867

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9781551642864

The FDR Years

By: William D. Pederson

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The FDR Years

By: William D. Pederson

Born in 1882 in New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered public service through the encouragement of the Democratic Party and won the election to the New York Senate in 1910. This book details his administration at the height of the Great Depression as he valiantly led the nation with the phrase, The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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Infobase Publishing

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Angels of Mercy

Angels of Mercy

Fred Cumberland

Fred Cumberland

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 7

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 7

Knowledge, Competence and Communication

Knowledge, Competence and Communication

The FDR Years

The FDR Years

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