Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (America and the Long 19th Century)
A scholarly exploration of how racial ideologies shaped American childhood from slavery through the civil rights era, using performance, literature, and material culture.
About This Book
Racial Innocence examines the intersection of race and childhood in the United States across more than a century.
The book analyzes performances, literature, and material culture to reveal how racial meanings were constructed through ideas of childhood innocence.
It covers the period from slavery to the civil rights movement, highlighting the persistence of racial narratives in American society.
Robin Bernstein draws on diverse sources to show how childhood was used to reinforce or challenge racial hierarchies.
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