A Home for Wayward Boys: The Early History of the Alabama Boys' Industrial School

A Home for Wayward Boys: The Early History of the Alabama Boys' Industrial School

Nostalgia glosses the pages of Jerry C. Armor's A Home for Wayward Boys: The Early History of the Alabama Boys' Industrial School as he constructs a past where white reform school students were acceptably mischievous and simply in need of moral and educational guidance. Instead of examinin...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Southern History 2016, Vol.82 (1), p.197-198
1. Verfasser: Cooper, Clay
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
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Armor
Drugs
Historians
Males
Parents & parenting
Racism
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Zusammenfassung:Nostalgia glosses the pages of Jerry C. Armor's A Home for Wayward Boys: The Early History of the Alabama Boys' Industrial School as he constructs a past where white reform school students were acceptably mischievous and simply in need of moral and educational guidance. Instead of examining the continuing racial inequalities within the Alabama legal system that contribute to black majorities in juvenile and adult detention centers, Armor relies on the tired Reaganite straw men of illegal drugs and single-parent homes as the explanation.
ISSN:0022-4642
2325-6893
DOI:10.1353/soh.2016.0065