Racial innocence : performing American childhood from slavery to civil rights
Robin Bernstein (Author)
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 children as innocent and vulnerable while excluding black youth from these qualities
eBook, English, 2011
New York University Press, New York, N.Y., 2011