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

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

Maude Hines
Thinking through and about childhood is integral to thinking about identity, systems of power, and possibilities for liberation. Read More

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

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adopted children, and kept children’s identities circumscribed in an ideology of biological essentialism that serves an outdated patriarchal social structure?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

Kenneth Kidd
I want to keep children’s literature as a priority for childhood studies, and P4C encourages that commitment. Read More