'That Biting, Stinging Thing Which Ever Shadows Us': African-American Social Workers in France during World War I

Autor:	Susan Kerr Chandler
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	African american Pride Internationalism (politics) Sociology and Political Science Social work media_common.quotation_subject Passion Gender studies Sociology Consciousness media_common First world war
Zdroj:	Social Service Review. 69:498-514
ISSN:	1537-5404 0037-7961
DOI:	10.1086/604137
Popis:	During World War I, 85 African-American social service workers were sent to France as program directors for the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). They took up their work in the context of soaring race consciousness as they and the African-American soldiers they served encountered "free France" on the one hand and the American command's determination to recreate Jim Crow on French soil on the other. The African-American YMCA "secretaries," as they were called, worked with imagination, passion, and considerable skill to establish the right of the African-American soldiers to services long designated "for whites only." Their programs were suffused by habits of collective self-help and benefited enormously from the race pride, spirit of internationalism, and militancy of the times.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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