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Cradle of liberty : race, the child, and national belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois / Caroline F. Levander.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levander, Caroline Field, 1964-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- New Americanists.
- New Americanists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's rights--United States.
- Children's rights.
- Children in literature.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Argues that from the late eighteeneth century through the early twentieth, American literary and political texts used the figure of the child to represent U.S. national belonging.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-237) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822388357
- 0822388359
- OCLC:
- 262341957
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