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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.
List of contents
Preface
IntroductionRethinking 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, 1892-1920W.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, 1920-1960Transcending "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
ConclusionRecovering and Creating a New Conscience Against Ancient Evils
Bibliography
References
About the author
MARY JO DEEGAN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Author and editor of 15 books, her titles include
The American Ritual Tapestry: Social Rules and Cultural Meanings (Greenwood, 1998),
With Her in Ourland: Sequel to Herland (Greenwood, 1997), and
Women in Sociology: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1991).
Summary
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.
