A 1910 report of the Fairview Garden School Association of Yonkers, N.Y., detailing the origin and growth of the school garden, including costs and plans for maintenance.
A. L. LIVERMORE was chairman of the Executive Committee of the Fairview Garden School Association.
An account of national festivals such as carnivals and their evolution over the twentieth century, in particular the annual Play Festival of Chicago, from the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation.
AMALIE HOFER, Playground Extension Committee, Russell Sage Foundation
Western European countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom have witnessed a significant increase in Muslim immigrants, which has given rise to nativist groups that question their belonging. Contributors Thomas Faist and Christian Ulbricht discuss how German politicians have implicitly compared the purported “backward” values of Muslim immigrants with the German idea of Leitkultur, or a society that values civil liberties and human rights, reinforcing the symbolic exclusion of Muslim immigrants. Similarly, Marieke Slootman and Jan Willem Duyvendak find that in the Netherlands, the conception of citizenship has shifted to focus less on political rights and duties and more on cultural norms and values. In this context, Turkish and Moroccan Muslim immigrants face increasing pressure to adopt “Dutch” culture, yet are simultaneously portrayed as having regressive views on gender and sexuality that make them unable to assimilate.
Religion is less of a barrier to immigrants’ inclusion in the United States, where instead undocumented status drives much of the political and social marginalization of immigrants. As Mary C. Waters and Philip Kasinitz note, undocumented immigrants in the United States. are ineligible for the services and freedoms that citizens take for granted and often live in fear of detention and deportation. Yet, as Irene Bloemraad points out, Americans’ conception of national identity expanded to be more inclusive of immigrants and their children with political mobilization and changes in law, institutions, and culture in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. Canadians’ views also dramatically expanded in recent decades, with multiculturalism now an important part of their national identity, in contrast to Europeans’ fear that diversity undermines national solidarity.
With immigration to North America and Western Europe a continuing reality, each region will have to confront anti-immigrant sentiments that create barriers for and threaten the inclusion of newcomers. Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity investigates the multifaceted connections among immigration, belonging, and citizenship, and provides new ways of thinking about national identity.
NANCY FONER is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
PATRICK SIMON is Director of Research at the Institut national d’études démographiques (National Institute for Demographic Studies).
CONTRIBUTORS: Irene Bloemraad, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Thomas Faist, Nancy Foner, Gary Gerstle, Philip Kasinitz, Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Deborah J. Schildkraut, Patrick Simon, Marieke Slootman, Varun Uberoi, Christian Ulbricht, Mary C. Waters
Immigrant Gifts to American Life, published in 1932, describes the purpose and content of the Buffalo Exhibition and other similar expositions. The Buffalo Exhibition was a public show of the arts and skills foreigners have brought and contributed to in the United States, under the direction of Allen H. Eaton, author of this book and at that time field secretary of the American Federation of Arts. They utilized a common interest in the aesthetic values men live by to promote a better understanding of social and civic values.
ALLEN H. EATON, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation
A history of the organization, the scope of the foundation's library collection and its use to social workers, with suggestions for other sources of information available to social workers and researchers in New York City in 1917.
FREDERICK WARREN JENKINS was librarian at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This 1918 report, containing a suggested "War Program," is based on a first-hand study of the various agencies and the war conditions under which they were operating during World War I. It argues for the enlargement of social service and welfare work for veterans and their dependents and was published under the authority of Governor Richard I. Manning, the State Council of Defense, and the State Board of Charities and Corrections.
HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.
From the text: "A pamphlet containing a suggested program for the Executive State Council in the mobilization of the resources of the State to meet conditions growing out of the prosecution of the war with Germany. Based upon a study of conditions in West Virginia."
HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.
Five articles relating to safety of Independence Day celebrations:
The New and More Glorious Fourth by Luther H. Gulick
An American Holiday by William Orr
A Fourth of July Without Fireworks from Ladies' Home Journal
How One Town Spends the Fourth by Inez J. Gardner
Celebrating the Fourth in Large Cities by Lee F. Hanmer
LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
WILLIAM ORR was principal of Central High School, Springfield, Massachusetts.
INEZ J. GARDNER, Ladies’ Home Journal
LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
A listing of after-school activities organized in public schools across the United States from 1919 to 1920.
CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation
A report on the Russell Sage library in 1913, then a public lending library of books and research on social work.
