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Author:

Petit, Jeanne D.

Title:

The men and women we want : gender, race, and the progressive era literacy test debate / Jeanne D. Petit.

Publisher:

University of Rochester Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xii, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Literacy--History--United States--History--20th century.
Literacy--History--United States--History--20th century.
Immigrants--History--United States--History--20th century.
United States--Social aspects.--Social aspects.
United States--History--History--20th century.
Progressivism (United States politics)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Breeders, workers, and mothers: the beginning of the literacy test debate -- Parents and progeny: the Dillingham Commission Report -- Muscle, miscegenation, and manhood: the literacy test at the height of the progressive era -- Practical aid and sympathetic understanding: Grace Abbott's alternative to the literacy test -- World War I and the literacy test -- The legacy of the progressive era literacy test debate.

Series:

Gender and race in American history, 2152-6400

ISBN:

1580463487 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781580463485 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)491913368

LCCN:

2010009781

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)