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The Death of Jane Addams |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / HOW SYMBOLS SHAPE CULTURE |
| Author: Edward Berkowitz |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1997 |
| Size: 4,441 Words, 31,044 Characters |
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This age is unlike the end of the nineteenth century, when social workers like Jane Addams took it upon themselves to settle among the immigrant poor and assist in the process of Americanizing them. Addams respected the differences between the ethnic groups living on the edge of downtown Chicago and wanted each in the neighborhood around Hull House to maintain a pride in its heritage. Still, she regarded it as her business to acclimate them to American life, to transform them from foreigners into Americans. She had no doubt that it was the American culture that should predominate and that the ultimate goal was integration, not segregation.vbcrlf These immigrants who lived in the cities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries inhab...
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...this effort. We have to rely on our politicians for inspirational leadership, I am afraid. It is the burden of historians to debunk the actions of politicians and to transform politicians from heroes into ordinary beings. For in the end, we need historians not to boost national self-confidence or reinforce our national myths but rather to come along after the fact and tell us what happened. vbcrlf
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