Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks

Klappentext Katharine Capshaw is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut! Storrs. She is the author of Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance! winner of the Children's Literature Association's 2004 award for best scholarly book.

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Contents

Introduction

1. Friendship, Sympathy, Social Change
2. Pictures and Nonfiction: Conduct and Coffee Tables
3. Today: Framing Freedom in Mississippi
4. The Black Arts Movement: Childhood as Liberatory Process
5. Blurring the Childhood Image: Representations of the Civil Rights Narrative

Conclusion: A Text for Trayvon

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index