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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 people associated with them helped to shape sociological thought about race relations in particular and sociology in general.
Contents
Preface Introduction Rethinking Gender, Race, and Sociology in Chicago, 1892-1960 Introducing the HHSRR and the CSRR Segments, 1892-1935 Documenting the Hull-House School of Race Relations and the Early Chicago School of Race Relations, 1892-1920 W.E.B. DuBois and the Women of Hull-House, 1895-1899 Chicago Sociologists and the Founding of the NAACP, 1909-1915 Chicago Sociologists and the Founding of the CAACP, 1909-1911 Fighting Jim Crow in Chicago's Public Schools: The Color Line at Wendell Phillips High School, 1912-1915 Rethinking the Chicago School of Race Relations, 1920-1960 Transcending "The Marginal Man:" Challenging the Patriarchal Legacy of Robert E. Park in the CSRR Wilmoth A. Carter and the Gendered Veil of the PCSRR Professional Life Behind the Veil: E. Franklin Frazier's Breaching Experiments in Jim Crow America Oliver C. Cox and Another New Conscience Against an Ancient Evil: The Redefined CSRR, 1892-1960 Conclusion Recovering and Creating a New Conscience Against Ancient Evils Bibliography References
