Suffering Childhood in Early America: Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim

Author/Contributor(s):	Duane, Anna Mae
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	11/01/2011
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Anna Mae Duane goes back to the nation's violent beginnings to examine how the ideal of childhood in early America was fundamental to forging concepts of ethnicity, race, and gender. She explores how the figure of a suffering child accrued political weight as the work of infantilization connected the child to Native Americans, slaves, and women.