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Contemporary public debate often frames immigrants and their descendants as "others" who are different from "us," where "us" is most often defined as white Americans. Language that separates “us” and “them,” known as boundary rhetoric, can have political consequences. Policymakers used exclusionary boundary rhetoric to describe Japanese Americans as a threat during World War II, leading to their internment. Recently, as the number of Latinx immigrants has grown, boundary rhetoric has spurred support for English-only policies and increased Federal immigration enforcement.

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Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands

With an Account of the Rural Handicraft Movement in the United States and Suggestions for the Wider Use of Handicrafts in Adult Education and in Recreation
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Allen H. Eaton
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Publication Date
486 pages

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This 1937 report has to do with people in the Appalachian Mountain region whose chief concern with handicrafts was the income they would bring, as they offered the only means by which to earn money. One purpose was to show how indispensable handicrafts were in the economy of countless families throughout the region; a second was to show the other rewards handicrafts brought to these same people, what they added to the social and recreational life for the communities in which they carried on, their educational and cultural significance, the esthetic enjoyment they fostered, their help in the field of therapeutics, and the sense of emotional security they gave. Containing fifty-eight illustrations form photographs taken for the work by Doris Ulmann.

Allen H. Eaton was the author of Immigrant Gifts to American Life and part of the Department of Surveys of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Cover image of the book From Custodian to Therapeutic Patient Care in Mental Hospitals
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From Custodian to Therapeutic Patient Care in Mental Hospitals

Explorations in Social Treatment
Authors
Milton Greenblatt
Richard H. York
Esther Lucile Brown
Ebook
Publication Date
503 pages

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An examination of the rise and development of therapeutic care for mental illness, studying the activities involved in providing ward care to hospitalized mental health patients. This book came about as a result of a nationwide survey of patient care as provided in representative state and psychiatric hospitals, as well as an experimental project with the Boston Psychopathic Hospital to establish cooperative relations with a state and a neuropsychiatric Veterans Administration hospital in the vicinity, in order to test the applicability of principles and practices such as those used by it. In collaboration with Robert W. Hyde.

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The Filene Store

A Study of Employes’ Relation to Management in a Retail Store
Author
Mary La Dame
Ebook
Publication Date
541 pages

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With a foreword by Mary Van Kleeck. Part of the Industrial Relations Series, a series by the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation investigating early twentieth-century experiments in the organization of relations between employers and employees in industrial enterprises in the United States. This volume examined William Filene’s Sons Company, a Boston department store, particularly the development of its human relations as an integral part of its business aims and its methods of management.

Mary La Dame, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

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Environmental Influences

Biology and Behavior Series
Editor
David C. Glass
Ebook
Publication Date
313 pages

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This volume contains fifteen papers that were delivered at a two-day conference under the auspices of Russell Sage Foundation and the Rockefeller University. The first volume was published in 1967 and dealt with the topic of neurophysiology and emotion. The second volume contained the proceedings of the conference on genetics and behavior and was published in 1968. The aim of the series was to strengthen the dialogue between the biological and social sciences.

Contributors:  Joaquín Cravioto, Richard H. Barnes, Edward A. Suchman, William A. Mason, Leon J. Yarrow, Peter Marler, Andrew Gordon, I. Arthur Mirsky, René Dubos, Richard H. Walters, D.E. Berlyne, William Kessen, P. Herbert Leiderman, Jerome Kagan, Urie Bronfenbrenner, and Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr.

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Elementary School Objectives

A report prepared for the Mid-Century Committee on Outcomes in Elementary Education
Author
Nolan C. Kearney
Ebook
Publication Date
189 pages

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The Mid-Century Committee on Outcomes in Elementary Education was assembled to describe for educations, test-makers, and interested citizens the measurable goals of instruction in American elementary schools. This 1953 report presents the specific objectives of elementary education as outlined by a distinguished group of consultants and evaluated by carefully selected critics.

Nolan C. Kearney was assistant superintendent for curriculum and research in the public schools of St. Paul, Minnesota.

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The Self-Image of the Foster Child

Author
Eugene A. Weinstein
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Publication Date
80 pages

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The study reported in this 1960 book examined the process of foster home placement and the impact of this process on the foster child. It also aimed to show some of the limits and potentialities of research in an actual practicing agency. The study grew out of a Russell Sage Foundation residency held by the author during 1954–1955 at the Chicago Child Care Society.

Eugene A. Weinstein was professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University.

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Cottage Six

The Social System of Delinquent Boys in Residential Treatment
Author
Howard W. Polsky
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Publication Date
193 pages

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Published in 1962, Cottage Six documents the implementation of more effective use of the social sciences in the therapeutic program of an institution for children, particularly its Cottage 6, inhabited by adolescent boys. It analyzes the problems that confront any institution that wishes to develop an integrated clinical and therapeutic community program.

Howard W. Polsky was professor at the New York School of Social Work, Columbia University.

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Building a Popular Movement

A Case Study of the Public Relations of the Boy Scouts of America
Author
Harold P. Levy
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Publication Date
167 pages

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An examination of the public relations administration of the Boy Scouts of America, the second in a series of public relations case studies published by the Russell Sage Foundation. Topics include the use of symbols and slogans, relations with the community, publicity programs, and a general history and annual reports of the Boy Scouts.

Harold P. Levy, research associate, with an introduction by Mary Swain Routzahn, director, Department of Social Work Interpretation, Russell Sage Foundation.

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Behavioral Goals of General Education in High School

Author
Will French
Ebook
Publication Date
245 pages

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The Survey Study of Behavioral Outcomes of General Education in High School was organized to describe for educators, curriculum planners, testmakers, and interested citizens the objectives of general education in American secondary schools. It attempts to draw out what high school graduates should be able to do – how they may be expected to think and feel and act – as a result of the general education element of their high school program.

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