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[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 0814787088, ISBN13: 9780814787083, [publisher: New York University Press Dez 2011] Softcover Neuware - 2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association2012 Runner-Up, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association2012 Honorable Mention, Distinguished Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of American Women WritersDissects how 'innocence' became the exclusive province of white children, covering slavery to the Civil Rights eraBeginning in the mid nineteenth century in America, childhood became synonymous with innocence-a reversal of the previously-dominant Calvinist belief that children were depraved, sinful creatures. As the idea of childhood innocence took hold, it became racialized: popular culture constructed white children as innocent and vulnerable while excluding black youth from these qualities. Actors, writers, and visual artists then began pairing white children with African American adults and children, thus transferring the quality of innocence to a variety of racial-political projects-a dynamic that Robin Bernstein calls 'racial innocence.' This phenomenon informed racial formation from the mid nineteenth century through the early twentieth.Racial ...
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ISBN10: 0814787088, ISBN13: 9780814787083, [publisher: NYU Press 2011-12-01] Softcover
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ISBN10: 0814787088, ISBN13: 9780814787083, [publisher: New York University Press] Softcover Shows how the concepts of childhood innocence fundamentally shaped the history of race in the US Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 318 pages, 52 b&w illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 526. . 2011. Paperback. . . . .
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New York New York University Press 2011 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 318 p. Contains: Illustrations, color. America and the Long 19th Century, 16.

ISBN10: 0814787088, ISBN13: 9780814787083, [publisher: NYU Press] Softcover
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New York Univ Pr, Date: 2011. Paperback. New. 304 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. 2011. New York Univ Pr ISBN 0814787088 9780814787083 [GB]

ISBN10: 0814787088, ISBN13: 9780814787083, [publisher: New York University Press] Softcover Shows how the concepts of childhood innocence fundamentally shaped the history of race in the US Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 318 pages, 52 b&w illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 526. . 2011. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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ISBN10: 0814787088, ISBN13: 9780814787083, [publisher: NYU Press] Softcover
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