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Like Children : Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Owens, Camille.
- Series:
- Performance and American Cultures Series
- Performance and American Cultures Series ; v.5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American children--History.
- African American children.
- African American children--Social conditions.
- African Americans--History.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Gifted African American children--History.
- Gifted African American children.
- United States--Social conditions.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "A history of childhood that revises the story of manhood, race, and human hierarchy in America"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Black history of prodigy, a new view on man
- "Babe belov'd" : Phillis Wheatley and the grammar of early American childhood
- "Wilt thou bring my baby home?" : Tom Wiggins and the unending Antebellum family
- The anatomy of Sammy Tubbs : Black emancipation and the human's reconstruction
- "Oscar Moore can tell you" : unbinding brightness in the archive of a wonderful boy
- "This is the end of the story no it isint" : anarranging Philippa Schuyler's scrapbook archive
- Epilogue: "To be held, free".
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Owens, Camille Like Children
- ISBN:
- 9781479812943
- OCLC:
- 1441725475
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