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Racial innocence : performing American childhood from slavery to civil rights /

Beginning in the mid nineteenth century in America, childhood became synonymous with innocenceoa reversal of the previously- dominant Calvinist belief that children were depraved, sinful creatures. As the idea of childhood innocence took hold, it became racialized: popular culture constructed white...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bernstein, Robin, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, N.Y. : New York University Press, ©2011.
Series:America and the long 19th century.
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