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Children of the storm : black children and American child welfare

Title
Children of the storm : black children and American child welfare / Andrew Billingsley, Jeanne M. Giovannoni.
Author
Billingsley, Andrew
Publication
  • New York : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, [1972]
  • ©1972

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Additional Authors
Giovannoni, Jeanne M.
Description
xvii, 263 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
Examines the reasons why the system of American child welfare is failing Black children.
Subject
  • Child welfare > United States
  • Social work with African American children
  • African Americans
  • Black or African American
  • Child Welfare
  • African American
  • African Americans
  • Child welfare
  • Social work with African American children
  • Fürsorge
  • Kind
  • Schwarze
  • African American children
  • African American children > Services for
  • United States
  • USA
  • Schwärze
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 253-256.
Contents
Black children and white child welfare -- The development of child welfare in America -- Black alternatives after the Civil War -- Child welfare in the twentieth century -- Early efforts for change within child welfare, 1937-1944 -- Black efforts for black children, 1953-1959 -- Extending adoptive services to black children, 1960-1970 -- Patterns of organizational reform in child welfare -- Beyond placement: social policy and the welfare of black children.
ISBN
  • 0151173400
  • 9780151173402
  • 0155072714
  • 9780155072718
LCCN
72075593
OCLC
  • ocm00393452
  • 393452
  • SCSB-109136
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library