Child Care in Black and White : Working Parents and the History of Orphanages.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Constructing Orphans -- Chapter 1. Institutionalizing Orphans: The Founding and Managing Women -- Chapter 2. Raising Orphans: The Child Care Dilemma of Families in Crisis -- Chapter 3. Boarding Orphans: Working Parents' Use of Orphanages as Child Care -- Chapter 4. Fathering Orphans: Gender and Institutional Child Care -- Chapter 5. Reforming Orphans: Progressive Reformers and Staff in the Development of Child Care Organ -- Chapter 6. Segregating Orphans: The Home for Colored Children -- Conclusion: Contesting Orphans -- Appendix A: Data Sets and Statistical Methodology -- Appendix B: Biographical Comparison of HCC and UPOH Founding Managers -- Appendix C: Birthplace of HCC Parents -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Index -- back cover.

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