Who gets a childhood? : race and juvenile justice in twentieth-century Texas /

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Author / Creator:	Bush, William S., 1967-
Imprint:	Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2010.
Description:	x, 257 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
Subject:	Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Texas -- History -- 20th century. Discrimination in juvenile justice administration -- Texas -- History -- 20th century. Juvenile delinquents -- Texas -- History -- 20th century. Discrimination in juvenile justice administration. Juvenile delinquents. Juvenile justice, Administration of. Texas. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8140482

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ISBN:	9780820329833 (alk. paper) 0820329835 (alk. paper) 9780820337197 (pbk : alk. paper) 0820337196 (pbk : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Race, Childhood, and Juvenile Justice History
Chapter 1. The Other Lost Generation: Reform and Resistance in the Juvenile Training Schools, 1907-1929
Chapter 2. Socializing Delinquency: Child Welfare, Mental Health, and the Critique of Institutions, 1929-1949
Chapter 3. Juvenile Rehabilitation and the Color Line: The Training School for Black Delinquent Girls, 1943-1950
Chapter 4. James Dean and Jim Crow: The Failure of Reform and the Racialization of Delinquency in the 1950s
Chapter 5. "Hard to Reach": The Politics of Delinquency Prevention in Postwar Houston
Chapter 6. Circling the Wagons: The Struggle over the Texas Youth Council, 1965-1971
Chapter 7. Creating a Right to Treatment: Morales v. Turman, 1971-1988
Epilogue. The New American Dilemma
Notes

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