Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois

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247

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381 g

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Duke Univ Pr

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"In this rich combination of cultural history, literary criticism, and social critique, Caroline F. Levander argues that the idea of childhood has figured centrally in American liberalism's entanglement with racial inequality. Levander reveals that from the late eighteenth century to the present, the belief in a natural path of human development from childish dependency to adult autonomy has both derived from and contributed to racial and gender hierarchies that have been constitutive of U. S. national identity. "Cradle of Liberty" takes on an impressive array of writers, including novelists, social theorists, and philosophers, in telling the story not only of those whose engagement with the concept of the child contributed to the nation's limited conception of liberalism, but also of those whose critiques of prevailing assumptions may provide us with strategies to increase liberalism's capacity to deliver social justice in our own time."--Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago

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Mehr über:  Sociology, Social Science / Children's Studies

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Mehr von:  Caroline Field Levander, Duke Univ Pr