001480269 000__ 05448nam\a22007575i\4500 001480269 001__ 1480269 001480269 003__ DE-B1597 001480269 005__ 20231026035133.0 001480269 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001480269 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001480269 008__ 230918t20112011nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001480269 020__ $$a9780814787090 001480269 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814787090.001.0001$$2doi 001480269 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)547434 001480269 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001480269 0410_ $$aeng 001480269 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001480269 072_7 $$aSOC001000$$2bisacsh 001480269 1001_ $$aBernstein, Robin, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001480269 24510 $$aRacial Innocence :$$bPerforming American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights /$$cRobin Bernstein. 001480269 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2011] 001480269 264_4 $$c©2011 001480269 300__ $$a1 online resource 001480269 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001480269 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001480269 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001480269 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001480269 4900_ $$aAmerica and the Long 19th Century ; ;$$v16 001480269 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. Tender Angels, Insensate Pickaninnies -- $$t2. Scriptive Things -- $$t3. Everyone Is Impressed -- $$t4. The Black-and-Whiteness of Raggedy Ann -- $$t5. The Scripts of Black Dolls -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001480269 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001480269 520__ $$a2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association 2012 Runner-Up, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association2012 Honorable Mention, Distinguished Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of American Women WritersPart of the American Literatures Initiative Series Beginning in the mid nineteenth century in America, childhood became synonymous with innocence-a reversal of the previously-dominant Calvinist belief that children were depraved, sinful creatures. As the idea of childhood innocence took hold, it became racialized: popular culture constructed white children as innocent and vulnerable while excluding black youth from these qualities. Actors, writers, and visual artists then began pairing white children with African American adults and children, thus transferring the quality of innocence to a variety of racial-political projects-a dynamic that Robin Bernstein calls "racial innocence." This phenomenon informed racial formation from the mid nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Racial Innocence takes up a rich archive including books, toys, theatrical props, and domestic knickknacks which Bernstein analyzes as "scriptive things" that invite or prompt historically-located practices while allowing for resistance and social improvisation. Integrating performance studies with literary and visual analysis, Bernstein offers singular readings of theatrical productions from blackface minstrelsy to Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; literary works by Joel Chandler Harris, Harriet Wilson, and Frances Hodgson Burnett; material culture including Topsy pincushions, Uncle Tom and Little Eva handkerchiefs, and Raggedy Ann dolls; and visual texts ranging from fine portraiture to advertisements for lard substitute. Throughout, Bernstein shows how "innocence" gradually became the exclusive province of white children-until the Civil Rights Movement succeeded not only in legally desegregating public spaces, but in culturally desegregating the concept of childhood itself.Check out the author's blog for the book here. 001480269 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001480269 546__ $$aIn English. 001480269 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. 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