Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein

Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights

Robin Bernstein

328 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Beginning in the mid-19th 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 ...

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