African american childhoods: historical perspectives from slavery through the civil rights movement

African American Childhoods seeks to fill a vacuum in the study of African American children. Recovering the voices or experiences of these children, we observe nuances in their lives based on their legal status, class standing, and social development. ÍNDICE: Introduction - Africa's Progeny Cast on America's Shores - Mixed and Matched Colors: Interactions Between Enslaved and Slaveholder Children in the Old South - Slave Children in Professional Households in the Antebellum South - 'No Bondage for Me': Free Black Boys and Girls Within a Slave Society - 'Dis was atter freedom come': The Gendered Nature of the Transition from Slavery to Freedom - Multicultural Education at the Hampton Institute: A Case Study of the Shawnee Indians, 1900-1923 - 'What a 'Life' This Is': An African American Girl Comes of Age During the Great Depression - 'You've Come a Long Way, Baby': Images of African American Children in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Print Media - Violence and Fear of Violence: Everyday Reality for African American Youth in Nineteen and Twentieth Century America - The Emmett Till Generation: African American Schoolchildren and the Modern - Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1964

• ISBN: 978-1-4039-6250-8
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 17/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés