Brigitte Fielder
What would critical childhood studies look like if a majority of our scholars imagined Black children not only as readers, but as capable and sophisticated readers for children’s literature? Read More
MLA 2020 Roundtable
“The Temporalities of Enslaved Childhood”
Sarah E. Chinn
Enslaved childhood resists the domination of white bourgeois figurations of child time, and imbricates and implicates it with slave time. Read More
“Timing It Right: Intersectionality, Temporality, and Critical Childhood Studies Now”
Maude Hines
Thinking through and about childhood is integral to thinking about identity, systems of power, and possibilities for liberation. Read More
“Intersections of Childhood/Slavery and the Invention of Global Children’s Literature”
Courtney Weikle-Mills
Childhood is often aligned with whiteness and innocence, but what other roles can it play? What happens when childhood functions as part of a program of enforcing inequality, dating back to slavery? Read More
“Interrogating Genealogy in Childhood Studies”
Carol J. Singley
How have we excluded the histories of adopted children, and kept children’s identities circumscribed in an ideology of biological essentialism that serves an outdated patriarchal social structure? Read More
“P4C, Children’s Literature, and Fanfiction by Kids”
Kenneth Kidd
I want to keep children’s literature as a priority for childhood studies, and P4C encourages that commitment. Read More
