By Robin Bernstein
"childhood innocence" has been vital to U.S. racial formation since
the mid-nineteenth century. Children--white ones imbued with innocence,
black ones excluded from it, and others of colour erased through it--figured
pivotally in sharply divergent racial agendas from slavery and
abolition to antiblack violence and the early civil rights circulation.
Racial Innocence takes up a wealthy archive together with books, toys, theatrical props, and
domestic knickknacks which she analyzes as "scriptive issues" that
invite or instructed historically-located practices whereas permitting for
resistance and social improvisation. Integrating functionality studies
with literary and visible research, Bernstein bargains singular readings
of theatrical productions from blackface minstrelsy to Uncle Tom's Cabin to The magnificent Wizard of Oz;
literary works through Joel Chandler Harris, Harriet Wilson, and Frances
Hodgson Burnett; fabric tradition together with Topsy pincushions, Uncle
Tom and Little Eva handkerchiefs, and Raggedy Ann dolls; and visual
texts starting from tremendous portraiture to ads for lard
substitute. all through, Bernstein exhibits how "innocence" gradually
became the unique province of white children--until the Civil Rights
stream succeeded not just in legally desegregating public spaces,
but in culturally desegregating the concept that of formative years itself.
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