This dissertation demonstrates how a transnational conception of poor people as 'backwards' and culturally distinct emerged from the nexus of intellectuals, activists, and administrators who …
In the wake of the American Civil War, Southerners faced a cultural crisis. Emancipation and military defeat ensured that the slave economy, which had formed …
The Most Interesting Girl of this Country is the Colored Girl: Girls and Racial Uplift in Great Migration Chicago, 1890-1950, focuses on the relationship between …