TY - JOUR AU - Crocker, Ruth AB - United States 953 The process was so demanding and selective that sional antipathy of African Americans to the preser­ vation movement they should consider the source. fewer than twenty properties had been purchased by the APVA by 1939. GARY STANTON Mary Washington College The APVA began as a women's preservation orga­ nization whose spokespersons were often, but not exclusively, men. In contrast to the preservation or­ ELISABETH LASCH-QUINN. Blacf< Neighbors: Race and the ganizations of New England headed by men, the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Move­ ment, 1890-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North APVA tended to blend the intentions of preserving Carolina Press. 1993. Pp. xii, 225. Cloth $39.95, paper architecture with the civil religion of patriotism, love $14.95. of family, and filiopietism. Although much is made of the seminal role of the APVA as the progenitor of Traditionally, the history of the American settlement­ modern preservation, the forbears of responsible house movement told the story of the settlements usufruct in the late twentieth century as practiced by affiliated in the National Federation of Settlements the National Park Service, Colonial Williamsburg, and (NFS) , founded in 1911. These agencies were nonde­ even the APVA are TI - Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn. Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1993. Pp. xii, 225. Cloth $39.95, paper $14.95 JF - The American Historical Review DO - 10.1086/ahr/100.3.953 DA - 1995-06-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/elisabeth-lasch-quinn-black-neighbors-race-and-the-limits-of-reform-in-ptxwmjG0PY SP - 953 EP - 954 VL - 100 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -