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Racial Innocence – Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights: America and the Long 19th Century

Autor Robin Bernstein
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2011
Beginning 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, while enabling sharply divergent political agendas to appear, paradoxically, to be innocuous, natural, normal, and therefore justified.Racial Innocence takes up a rich archive including books, toys, theatrical props, and domestic knickknacks which Bernstein analyzes as “scriptive things” that invite or prompt historically-located practices while allowing for resistance and social improvisation. Integrating performance studies with literary and visual analysis, Bernstein offers singular readings of theatrical productions, literary works, material culture including Topsy pincushions and Raggedy Ann dolls, and visual texts ranging from fine portraiture to advertisements for lard substitute. Throughout, Bernstein shows how “innocence” gradually became the exclusive province of white children--until the Civil Rights Movement succeeded not only in legally desegregating public spaces, but in culturally desegregating the concept of childhood itself.
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ISBN-13: 9780814787083
ISBN-10: 0814787088
Pagini: 318
Ilustrații: 52 b&w illustrations, 2 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MI – New York University
Seria America and the Long 19th Century


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“A powerful addition to the discourses of performance, literature, and race as well as to the burgeoning field of Childhood Studies.... Will prove to be an important and widely read book.” Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Amherst College

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Shows how the concepts of childhood innocence fundamentally shaped the history of race in the US