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A new history of manhood, race, and hierarchy in American childhood
Like Children argues that the child has been the key figure giving measure and meaning to the human in thought and culture since the early American period. Camille Owens demonstrates that white men's power at the top of humanism's order has depended on those at the bottom. As Owens shows, it was childhood's modern arcfrom ignorance and dependence to reason and rightsthat structured white men's power in early America: by claiming that black adults were like children, whites naturalized black subjection within the American family order. Demonstrating how Americans sharpened the child into a powerful white supremacist weapon, Owens nevertheless troubles the notion that either the child or the human have been figures of unadulterated whiteness or possess stable boundaries.
Like Children recenters the history of American childhood around black children and rewrites the story of the human th

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A new history of manhood, race, and hierarchy in American childhoodLike Children argues that the child has been the key... Read more

    Publisher: New York University Press
    Publication Date: 7/30/2024
    ISBN13: 9781479812929, 978-1479812929
    ISBN10: 1479812927

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    A new history of manhood, race, and hierarchy in American childhood
    Like Children argues that the child has been the key figure giving measure and meaning to the human in thought and culture since the early American period. Camille Owens demonstrates that white men's power at the top of humanism's order has depended on those at the bottom. As Owens shows, it was childhood's modern arcfrom ignorance and dependence to reason and rightsthat structured white men's power in early America: by claiming that black adults were like children, whites naturalized black subjection within the American family order. Demonstrating how Americans sharpened the child into a powerful white supremacist weapon, Owens nevertheless troubles the notion that either the child or the human have been figures of unadulterated whiteness or possess stable boundaries.
    Like Children recenters the history of American childhood around black children and rewrites the story of the human th

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