PDF-(BOOK)-Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (America

Beginning in the mid19th century in America childhood became synonymous with innocencea reversal of the previouslydominant 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 Actors writers and visual artists then began pairing white children with African American adults and children thus transferring the quality of innocence to a variety of racialpolitical projectsa dynamic that Robin Bernstein calls racial innocence This phenomenon informed racial formation from the mid19th century through the early 20th centuryRacial Innocence takes up a rich archive including books toys theatrical props and domestic knickknacks which Bernstein analyzes as scriptive things that invite or prompt historically located practices while allowing for resistance and social improvisation Integrating performance studies with literary and visual analysis Bernstein offers singular readings of theatrical productions from blackface minstrelsy to Uncle Toms Cabin to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz literary works by Joel Chandler Harris Harriet Wilson and Frances Hodgson Burnett material culture including Topsy pincushions Uncle Tom and Little Eva handkerchiefs and Raggedy Ann dolls and visual texts ranging from fine portraiture to advertisements for lard substitute Throughout Bernstein shows how innocence gradually became the exclusive province of white childrenuntil the Civil Rights Movement succeeded not only in legally desegregating public spaces but in culturally desegregating the concept of childhood itselfWriting in Childrens Literature Philip Nel notes that Racial Innocence is one of those rare books that shifts the paradigma book that in years to come will be recognized as a landmark in childrens literature and childhood studies In the journal Cultural Studies reviewer Aaron C Thomas says that Bernsteins theory of the scriptive thing asks us to see children as active participants in culture and in fact as expert agents of the culture of childhood into which they have been interpellated In this way Bernstein is able not only to describe the effects of 19thcentury radicalization on 21st century US culture but also to illuminate the radicalized residues of our own childhoods in our everyday adult lives Racial Innocence was awarded the 2012 Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the award committee noted that the book is a historiographic tour de force that traces a genealogy of the invention of the innocent white child and its racialized roots in 19th and 20th century US popular culture. 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Scientific racism. The Caribbean origins of race:. Barbados in the 17. AP . US. Hamer. Pre-Colonization. Millions of Native Americans lived throughout the Americas in large civilizations, towns, or nomadic groups. Extensive trade existed between the various . groups. Largest civilizations were in Central and South America. 29 . Review Video. Civil Rights, Vietnam, And The Ordeal Of Liberalism. www.Apushreview.com. Expanding the Liberal State. Election of 1960:. Kennedy (D) v. Nixon (R). TV played an important role. Kennedy won in a close election. UNEVEN ROADS, CHAPTER 6. Chapter Objectives. Explain the racial considerations incorporated into the nation’s founding documents and the motivations behind them. Identify how societal factors and government practices shaped options for new populations arriving from Europe and challenged the conception of Whiteness. From Slavery to Freedom. 9. th. ed.. © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. . 2. New Amsterdam. Imperial Claims to North America. Early Settlements. Slaves played important role in Spanish efforts to gain foothold in North America. BILL CLINTON, 1993-2001. DOMESTIC POLICY. . *Cut Federal spending, raised taxes on wealthy. *Proposed health care reform; failed to pass. *CONTRACT WITH AMERICA—Newt Gingrich proposes. smaller government/ more responsible to people. Between 1860 and 1861, 11 Southern states seceded from the US, starting the Civil War.. The war raised several issues: . the right of states to secede . the president’s wartime powers. the balance between individual rights and national security .