{"product_id":"civil-rights-childhood-9780816694051","title":"Civil Rights Childhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Katharine Capshaw’s new study—intersecting photography, children’s literature, and the civil rights movement—is a rich and strikingly original addition to the growing scholarship on African American childhood. Many scholars will appreciate and be indebted to this important work.\" —Gerald Early, Washington University in St. Louis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Capshaw’s analysis and contextualization of the works in question break entirely new ground, offering original ways of thinking about how the photographic book operated as a medium particularly suited to African-American authors, child readers, and messages about civil rights.\" —Julia Mickenberg, University of Texas at Austin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is an important and engaging book that offers one of the few extended discussions of depictions of black childhood. \"—\u003ci\u003eInternational Review of Children’s Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCivil Rights Childhood \u003c\/i\u003ewill no doubt be an influential text in our understanding of the visual representations of black childhood now and in our future.\"—\u003ci\u003eMELUS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating, well-conceived and empirically rich study.\"—\u003ci\u003eVisual Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To read Capshaw is. . . to receive a lesson on the cultural importance and responsibility of literary scholarship. \u003ci\u003eCivil Rights Childhood \u003c\/i\u003enot only advances our scholarly understanding of the politics of childhood, but also enables readers to better contextualize so many of the images and injustices we continue to encounter.\"—\u003ci\u003eInternational Research Society for Children’s Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Deeply researched and engagingly written.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Childhood and Youth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCivil Rights Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e is notable for its steadfast and vocal commitment to its political project. Capshaw’s continual engagement with the real implications of the work she analyzes and also of her own would make this book a useful one to use in the classroom.\"—\u003ci\u003eCAA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Impeccably researched. Capshaw does some incredibly impressive literary recovery work, shedding light on texts completely unfamiliar to many contemporary scholars of either children’s literature or African American studies.\"—\u003ci\u003eChildren’s Literature Association Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Friendship, Sympathy, Social Change\u003cbr\u003e2. Pictures and Nonfiction: Conduct and Coffee Tables\u003cbr\u003e3. Today: Framing Freedom in Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e4. The Black Arts Movement: Childhood as Liberatory Process\u003cbr\u003e5. Blurring the Childhood Image: Representations of the Civil Rights Narrative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: A Text for Trayvon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MP - University Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038555865431,"sku":"9780816694051","price":31.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816694051.jpg?v=1750940661","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/civil-rights-childhood-9780816694051","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}