Taking Children: A History of American Terror

Taking Children: A History of American Terror

by Laura Briggs
Taking Children: A History of American Terror

Taking Children: A History of American Terror

by Laura Briggs

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Overview

"You have to take the children away."—Donald Trump
 
Taking Children
argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers. As Laura Briggs's sweeping narrative shows, the practice played out on the auction block, in the boarding schools designed to pacify the Native American population, in the foster care system used to put down the Black freedom movement, in the US's anti-Communist coups in Central America, and in the moral panic about "crack babies." In chilling detail we see how Central Americans were made into a population that could be stripped of their children and how every US administration beginning with Reagan has put children of immigrants and refugees in detention camps. Yet these tactics of terror have encountered opposition from every generation, and Briggs challenges us to stand and resist in this powerful corrective to American history.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520385771
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 08/10/2021
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Laura Briggs is Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is author of How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to TrumpSomebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption, and Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico.

Table of Contents

Introduction: American Amnesia 
1. Taking Black Children 
2. Taking Native Children
3. Taking Children in Latin America
4. Criminalizing Families of Color
5. Taking the Children of Refugees
Conclusion: Taking Children Back—Resistance

Acknowledgments
Notes 
Bibliography
Index
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