BOOK | States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895-1945 (MIT Press, 2020) by Jennifer S. Light
ARTICLE | Child Apprenticeship in the Cape Colony: The Case of the Children’s Friend Society Emigration Scheme, 1833–1841 | Slavery & Abolition | by Rebecca Swartz
“This article examines the meanings of apprenticeship in the Cape colony in the wake of emancipation. It focuses on a small group of white child labourers brought to the Cape from England in the 1830s by a London-based philanthropic organisation, the Children’s Friend Society.” Read More
Read moreCFP | Due 30 Dec 2021 | Searching for the Modern Girl: Flappers and Bright Young Things Around the World 1920s–40s | Special Issue of The Space Between
VIRTUAL EVENT | 18 May 2021 | Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions | Western Washington University
ARTICLE | Becoming Wards of the State: Race, Crime, and Childhood in the Struggle for Foster Care Integration, 1920s to 1960s | American Sociological Review | by Michaela Christy Simmons
“Using archival materials from the Domestic Relations Court of New York City, this article traces the conflict between private institutions and the state over responsibility for neglected African American children in the early twentieth century.” Read More
Read moreCFP | Due 12 Jul 2021 | Children’s Leisure in Cross-Cultural Perspective
“Contributors are particularly encouraged to consider how their empirical insights into children’s leisure and childhood leisure cultures can illuminate broader questions around leisure, consumption, power, social change, child-adult relations and children’s social status at both local and global scales.”
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