NEW BOOK | Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century
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IN THE NEWS | The Trayvon Generation
“Black creativity emerges from long lines of innovative responses to the death and violence that plague our communities. ‘Not a house in the country ain’t packed to its rafters with some dead Negro’s grief,’ Toni Morrison wrote in Beloved, and I am interested in creative emergences from that ineluctable fact.”
Read moreNEW ARTICLE | Queering Black Girlhood at the Virginia Industrial School
By Mary Zaborskis
Criminalized children were one group of children excluded from twentieth-century and contemporary cultural narratives that have viewed children as sexually innocent, deserving of protection, and beneficiaries of the future. I’m interested in how promises of recuperation, protection, and futurity to criminalized children actually enabled the continued denial of each. Read More
NEW ARTICLE | Enslavement and the Temporality of Childhood
By Sarah E. Chinn
“This article explores how thinking about the time of childhood through the lens of US slavery forces us to rethink both phenomena.” Read More
IN THE NEWS | Young Activist Pushes to Lower Voting Age to 16 as ‘The Logical Next Step’ for Gen Z
“The idea of lowering the voting age has drawn some support, largely from Democrats. Although the effort failed, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., proposed an amendment to lower the national voting age to 16 in House Democrats’ voting overhaul bill last year.”
Read moreNEW BOOK | Lewis Carroll’s Photography and Modern Childhood
NEW SPECIAL ISSUE | Critical Approaches to Age in American Literature | Studies in American Fiction
NEW BOOK | Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
CFP | Due 15 Oct 2020 | Mapping the Colonial Routes of Children’s Literature Circulation and Reception in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (SHCY 2021)
NEW JOURNAL ROUNDTABLE | Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis | The American Historical Review
