Cradle of liberty : race, the child, and national belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois / Caroline F. Levander.

Author/Creator:

Levander, Caroline Field, 1964-

Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2006.

Series:

New Americanists

Format/Description:

Book
x, 247 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

Children's rights -- United States.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
Children in literature.

Contents:

Introduction : natal nationalism : the place of the child in American cultural studies
The child and the racial politics of nation making in the slavery era
Southern fictions and the "race" of nations along the Mexican border
Consenting fictions, fictions of consent : the child and the nineteenth-century sentimental novel
Transnational Twain
Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and psychologies of race
Raceless states: W. E. B. Du Bois and Cuba.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-237) and index.

ISBN:

0822338564 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822338726 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

67921882

Publisher Number:

9780822338567
9780822338727

Online:

Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0612/2006012767.html

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