Ruth C Schaffer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3924537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth C Schaffer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth C |
| FAMILY NAME | Schaffer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAFFER R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Health and Social Functions of Black Midwives on the Texas Brazos Bottom, 1920-1985
This paper concerns black midwives who practiced traditional medicine in six central Texas counties, mostly located on the Brazos River. During the years of hospital segregation following the Civil War, the black midwife performed two major functions. Through formal connections with white physicians who taught them the basics of obstetrical care, black midwives were able to provide a better level of health care for black women than otherwise woul…
Neighborhood Organizing for Urban School Reform
Giving an overview of the sources of problems in urban schools, the schooling process itself, and the contemporary meanings of school reform, the author offers his theory of how neighbourhood organisations can bring about school reform
Bradstow: A Study of Status, Class and Power in a Small Australian Town
The Law, Faculty Desegregation and Social Change
pHE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT constitutes an historic effort to rid America of the contradiction between national beliefs on equality and individualism and the elements of caste in the stratification system.1 It seeks to establish Negro Americans in the status of citizen with the rights and privileges possessed by all other incumbents.2 Success would facilitate the inclusion in national policy of the goals and aspirations of the Negro minority. The c…
Socialization and the Development of Attitudes toward Negroes in Alabama
Community Organization: Action and Inaction
The Health and Social Functions of Black Midwives on the Texas Brazos Bottom, 1920-1985
This paper concerns black midwives who practiced traditional medicine in six central Texas counties, mostly located on the Brazos River. During the years of hospital segregation following the Civil War, the black midwife performed two major functions. Through formal connections with white physicians who taught them the basics of obstetrical care, black midwives were able to provide a better level of health care for black women than otherwise woul…
Community Organization: Action and Inaction
Socialization and the Development of Attitudes toward Negroes in Alabama
The Law, Faculty Desegregation and Social Change
pHE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT constitutes an historic effort to rid America of the contradiction between national beliefs on equality and individualism and the elements of caste in the stratification system.1 It seeks to establish Negro Americans in the status of citizen with the rights and privileges possessed by all other incumbents.2 Success would facilitate the inclusion in national policy of the goals and aspirations of the Negro minority. The c…
Bradstow: A Study of Status, Class and Power in a Small Australian Town
Neighborhood Organizing for Urban School Reform
Giving an overview of the sources of problems in urban schools, the schooling process itself, and the contemporary meanings of school reform, the author offers his theory of how neighbourhood organisations can bring about school reform
The Health and Social Functions of Black Midwives on the Texas Brazos Bottom, 1920-1985
This paper concerns black midwives who practiced traditional medicine in six central Texas counties, mostly located on the Brazos River. During the years of hospital segregation following the Civil War, the black midwife performed two major functions. Through formal connections with white physicians who taught them the basics of obstetrical care, black midwives were able to provide a better level of health care for black women than otherwise woul…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Desegregation (2 works) · Education Systems and Policy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · American History and Culture (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Black female (1 works)