Racial innocence : performing American childhood from slavery to civil rights /
Beginning in the mid nineteenth century in America, childhood became synonymous with innocenceoa 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...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | New York, N.Y. : New York University Press, ©2011. |
| Series: | America and the long 19th century.
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