African American Childhoods: Historical Perspectives from Slavery to Civil Rights

by W. King

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403962515
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/17/2008
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Wilma King is Strickland Professor of African American History and Culture at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the author and editor of several books on African American social history, including the definitive book on slave children in America, Stolen Childhoods: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America.

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"An indelible portrait of growing up black from the 18th to the 21st century. Sweeping, deeply researched, and powerfully written, this volume captures African American children's responses to the slave trade, the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and the civil rights movement. It offers fascinating insights into the evolution of African American childrens' play; the interactions of black, white, and Indian children; racial iconography in fiction and marketing; and the differences between African American girlhood and boyhood." - Steven Mintz, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History, University of Houston, and author of Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood

Editorial Reviews

"An indelible portrait of growing up black from the 18th to the 21st century. Sweeping, deeply researched, and powerfully written, this volume captures African American children's responses to the slave trade, the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and the civil rights movement. It offers fascinating insights into the evolution of African American childrens' play; the interactions of black, white, and Indian children; racial iconography in fiction and marketing; and the differences between African American girlhood and boyhood."--Steven Mintz, John and Rebecca Moores Profess of History, University of Houston, and author of Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood

From the Publisher