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1	An explanatory study of settlement house actions to decrease discrimination Pi-Sunyer, Penelope Wheeler January 1963 (has links) Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / This study is an exploratory study to examine settlement house directors' perceptions of discrimination against Negroes in their communities and the actions their agencies were taking to decrease discrimination. The study thus fell into two broad areas. The first part of the study explored the directors' perceptions of the discrimination against Negroes in their communities in housing, education, employment and other areas . This part of the study was based on the assumption that discrimination did exist in some form and did not try to examine or describe that discrimination objectively. The study was rather focused upon the directors' own perceptions of discrimination. The study did not attempt to explore the directors' own prejudices or discriminatory practices, for this would have required an evaluative study of attitudes and a different research design and different techniques from those used in the study. [TRUNCATED] African Americans Racism Race discrimination Settlement houses
2	Settlement Houses, Changing Neighborhoods, and Adaptation for Survival: An Examination of Merrick House in Cleveland’s Tremont Neighborhood and Its Place in the Wider Context of the Social Reforms of the United States, 1919-1961 Montagno, Sara K. 28 August 2019 (has links) No description available. American History History Merrick House settlement houses settlement movement Cleveland, Ohio Tremont Cleveland neighborhoods Catholic settlement houses Ohio history Progressivism Progressive Era Christ Child Society
3	Rolling Out the Transformative Social Economy: A Case Study of Organic Intellectualism in Canadian Settlement Houses Fong, Melissa 01 January 2011 (has links) Social economy community development organizations (SECDOs) are social service organizations that provide poverty relief but do not necessarily inspire a counter-hegemonic antipoverty strategy against a neoliberal welfare state. Tension between providing human social services and engaging in advocacy is at the core of how SECDOs may be both complicit to as well as working against the neoliberalization of the welfare state. This study explores how SECDOs can nurture a new paradigm for community economic development organizations. Through a case study of a Canadian settlement house, the research demonstrates how transforming work may encourage a culture of organic intellectualism or, a culture of emancipatory consciousness-raising. By re-organizing workplace practices, such as working collaboratively, providing a hub for services and engaging in popular education, transformative SECDOs help provide the conditions for citizens to affect governance. The research theorizes how SECDOs may foster a culture of organic intellectualism to promote the transformative social economy. activism adult education advocacy alienation anti-poverty Canadian settlement houses case study community development conscientization counter-hegemony governance marxist-humanist organic intellectualism popular education roll-out neoliberalism social change social economy social movement social service provision social work sociology Toronto transformative welfare 0516 0515 0998 0340 0501 0510 0511 0334 0452 0630 0344
4	Rolling Out the Transformative Social Economy: A Case Study of Organic Intellectualism in Canadian Settlement Houses Fong, Melissa 01 January 2011 (has links) Social economy community development organizations (SECDOs) are social service organizations that provide poverty relief but do not necessarily inspire a counter-hegemonic antipoverty strategy against a neoliberal welfare state. Tension between providing human social services and engaging in advocacy is at the core of how SECDOs may be both complicit to as well as working against the neoliberalization of the welfare state. This study explores how SECDOs can nurture a new paradigm for community economic development organizations. Through a case study of a Canadian settlement house, the research demonstrates how transforming work may encourage a culture of organic intellectualism or, a culture of emancipatory consciousness-raising. By re-organizing workplace practices, such as working collaboratively, providing a hub for services and engaging in popular education, transformative SECDOs help provide the conditions for citizens to affect governance. The research theorizes how SECDOs may foster a culture of organic intellectualism to promote the transformative social economy. activism adult education advocacy alienation anti-poverty Canadian settlement houses case study community development conscientization counter-hegemony governance marxist-humanist organic intellectualism popular education roll-out neoliberalism social change social economy social movement social service provision social work sociology Toronto transformative welfare 0516 0515 0998 0340 0501 0510 0511 0334 0452 0630 0344
5	Limitations and liabilities: Flanner House, Planned Parenthood, and African American birth control in 1950s Indianapolis Brown, Rachel Christine 09 1900 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This thesis analyzes the relationship between Flanner House, an African American settlement house, and Planned Parenthood of Central Indiana to determine why Flanner House director Cleo Blackburn would not allow a birth control clinic to be established at the Herman G. Morgan Health Center in 1951. Juxtaposing the scholarship of African Americans and birth control with the historiography of black settlement houses leads to the conclusion that Blackburn’s refusal to add birth control to the health center’s services had little to do with the black Indianapolis community’s opinions on birth control; instead, Flanner House was confined by conservative limitations imposed on it by white funders and organizations. The thesis examines the success of Blackburn and Freeman B. Ransom, Indianapolis’s powerful black leaders, in working within the system of limitations to establish the Morgan Health Center in 1947. Ransom and Blackburn received monetary support from the United Fund, the Indianapolis Foundation, and the U.S. Children’s Bureau, which stationed one of its physicians, Walter H. Maddux, in Indianapolis. The Center also worked as a part of the Indianapolis City Board of Health’s public health program. These organizations and individuals did not support birth control at this time and would greatly influence Blackburn’s decision about providing contraceptives. In 1951, Planned Parenthood approached Blackburn about adding birth control to the services at Morgan Health Center. Blackburn refused, citing the Catholic influence on the Flanner House board. While acknowledging the anti-birth control stance of Indianapolis Catholics, the thesis focuses on other factors that contributed to Blackburn’s decision and argues that the position of Flanner House as a black organization funded by conservative white organizations had more impact than any religious sentiment; birth control would have been a liability for the Morgan Health Center as adding contraceptives could have threatened the funding the Center needed in order to serve the African American community. Finally, the position of Planned Parenthood and Flanner House as subordinate organizations operating within the limitations of Indianapolis society are compared and found to be similar. Flanner House Herman G. Morgan Health Center Cleo Blackburn Freeman B. Ransom Walter H. Maddux Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood of Central Indiana African Americans Indianapolis Birth Control African American Birth Control Indianapolis Philanthropy Lockefield Gardens US Children's Bureau Katherine Lenroot Social Control 1950s African American Leadership Segregation Medical Discrimination Race Suicide Settlement Houses Birth Control Clinics Contraceptives Margaret Sanger Catholics and Birth Control Conservatism Limitations United Fund Community Chest Indianapolis Foundation Eli Lilly & Company Indianapolis City Board of Health Women's History African American History Indianapolis History Race Relations

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