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Author Levander, Caroline Field, 1964-

Title Cradle of liberty : race, the child, and national belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois / Caroline F. Levander.

Publication Info. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2006.

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 Moore Stacks  HQ789 .L48 2006    Available  ---
Description x, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series New Americanists
New Americanists.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-237) and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Natal nationalism : the place of the child in American cultural studies -- 1. The child and the racial politics of nation making in the slavery era -- 2. Southern fictions and the "race" of nations along the Mexican border -- 3. Consenting fictions, fictions of consent : the child and the nineteenth-century sentimental novel -- 4. Transnational Twain -- 5. Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and psychologies of race -- 6. Raceless states : W. E. B. Du Bois and Cuba -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject Children's rights -- United States.
Children's rights.
United States.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Children in literature.
Children in literature.
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