Review of \u3cem\u3eNew Deal, New Landscape: The Civilian Conservation Corps & South Carolina\u27s State Parks.\u3c/em\u3e Tara Mitchel Mielnik. Reviewed by Marguerite G. Rosenthal.

Book review of Tara Mitchel Mielnik, New Deal, New Landscape: The Civilian Conservation Corps & South Carolina\u27s State Parks. (2011). The University of South Carolina Press. $34.95 (paperback)

Reforming the Juvenile Correctional Institution: Efforts of the U.S. Children\u27s Bureau in the 1930s

The U.S. Children\u27s Bureau, the federal agency responsible for social policy for children in the early part of this century, delayed studying the problems associated with the institutionalization of juvenile delinquents for nearly twenty-five years. In the 1930\u27s, the Bureau undertook several projects and studies related to training schools for delinquents which were designed to create reform in an area long recognized as harmful to children. This article traces the history of the Bureau\u27s work in the institutional field from 1912-54, analyzes the reasons for the agency\u27s initial reluctance and later activity in this area, discusses the results of these early reform efforts and suggests reasons for the Bureau\u27s failure to achieve significant reform in the juvenile correctional field

Review of \u3cem\u3eThree Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal.\u3c/em\u3e Cybelle Fox. Reviewed byMarguerite G. Rosenthal.

Book review of Cybelle Fox, Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal. Princeton University Press (2012). $35 (paperback);$80 (hardcover)

Review of \u3cem\u3eWork-Life Policies.\u3c/em\u3e Ann C. Crouter and Alan Booth, Eds. Reviewed by Marguerite G. Rosenthal.

Book review of Ann C. Crouter and Alan Booth, Eds., Work-Life Policies. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press, 2009. $32.50, paperback

Review of \u3cem\u3eThe New Jim Crow in the Age of Colorblindness.\u3c/em\u3e Michelle Alexander. Reviewed by Marguerite G. Rosenthal.

Book review of Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow in the Age of Colorblindness (2010). New York & London: The New Press. $27.95 (hardcover)

Personality Characteristics of Dramatics Majors at Selected Institutions of Higher Education in Tennessee

The primary purpose of the study was to determine significant differences and likenesses in personality characteristics of dramatics majors. A secondary purpose was to ascertain whether personality studies of this type might be effectively used by supervisors, departmental heads, and/or instructors in guiding students interested in dramatics in their choices of majors, colleges, and ultimately careers. Eighty-seven female dramatics majors and seventy-two male dramatics majors enrolled in nine colleges and universities in Tennessee volunteered to participate by taking the Omnibus Personality Inventory, the measuring instrument used for data gathering. The one-way analysis of variance was used to ascertain any significant personality difference at the .05 level between state and denominational dramatics groups, state and other private groups, and denominational and other private groups. The following findings were ascertained: 1. State and denominational dramatics groups differed significantly at the .05 level on three of the fourteen scales— Autonomy, Religious Orientation, and Impulse Expression. The state group was significantly different on the Autonomy and Impulse-Expression scales. The denominational group was significantly different on the Religious Orientation scale. 2. State and other private dramatics groups failed to differ significantly at the .05 level on any of the fourteen scales. 3. Denominational and other private dramatics groups differed significantly at the .05 level on two scales— Religious Orientation and Masculinity-Femininity. The denominational group was significantly different on the Religlous-Orientatlon and Masculinity-Femininity scales from the other private group. 4. Although the three groups were different on five of the scales at the .05 level of significance when comparisons were made, homogeneity was reflected on the other nine scales. The state and other private dramatics groups had almost identical personality profiles. The following conclusions were made: 1. The state group was characterized as more Independent, liberal, tolerant, antl-authoritarlan, expressive, sensual, Imaginative, and sometimes impractical than the denominational group. The denominational group was characterized as more traditional and judgmental with stronger Judaic-Christian commitments than the state group. 2. Dramatics majors, preferring to be with other dramatics majors who valued autonomy and impulsiveness, might be better advised to attend state institutions of higher education. If, however, religious emphasis was a prime consideration, then dramatics majors might be better advised to attend denominational institutions of higher education. 3. Since no significance differences existed between state and other private institutions of higher education, dramatics majors with similar personality characteristics, might well be advised to attend either state or other private institutions. 4. Since the denominational dramatics group reflected greater significance on the Rellgious-Orientation and Masculinity-Femininity scales, it was characterized as more traditional and judgmental with stronger Judaic-Christian commitments and more feminine with more sociable, esthetic, sensitive, and emotional inclinations. If dramatics majors prized these personality characteristics highly, they might well be advised to attend denominational institutions of higher education. 5. Collectively, the dramatics group majors were moderately esthetic, complex, and anxious, reflecting varied interests in all the arts by appreciating poetry, paintings, dramatics, sculpture, and architecture; being tolerant of ambiguities, being appreciative of the unusual, new ideas, and uncertainties, and being nervous, worried, tense, and excitable. 6. Collectively, the dramatics group majors were reflected as highly feminine and impulsive, characterized as sociable, esthetic, sensitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive, expressive, and sometimes impractical

Review of \u3cem\u3ePatterns of Protest: Trajectories of Participation in Social Movements.\u3c/em\u3e Catherine Corrigall-Brown. \u3cem\u3eWritten Out of History: Memoirs of Ordinary Activists.\u3c/em\u3e Bette Steinmuller, Nancy Teel, Beatrice Nava, Linda Stern, Steven Norris, and Kendall Hale. Reviewed by Marguerite G. Rosenthal.

Book review of Catherine Corrigall-Brown, Patterns of Protest: Trajectories of Participation in Social Movements (2012). Stanford University Press, 45.00 (hardcover). Bette Steinmuller, Nancy Teel, Beatrice Nava, Linda Stern, Steven Norris, & Kendall Hale, Written Out of History: Memoirs of Ordinary Activists (2011). Leapyear Press, 15.00 (paperback)

Review of \u3cem\u3ePrisoner Reentry at Work: Adding Business to the Mix.\u3c/em\u3e Melvin Delgado. Reviewed by Marguerite G. Rosenthal.

Book review of Melvin Delgado, Prisoner Reentry at Work: Adding Business to the Mix (2012). Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. $58 (hardcover)

Review of \u3cem\u3eMore than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City.\u3c/em\u3e William Julius Wilson. Reviewed by Marguerite G. Rosenthal.

Book review of William Julius Wilson, More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Issues of Our Time). W. W. Norton and Co., 2009. $24.95 hardcover,$15.95 papercover