Like children : Black prodigy and the measure of the human in America / Camille Owens.
2024
E185.86 .O935 2024
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Title
Like children : Black prodigy and the measure of the human in America / Camille Owens.
Author
Owens, Camille, author.
ISBN
1479812943 electronic book
9781479812950 electronic book
1479812951 electronic book
9781479812943 (electronic bk.)
9781479812912 hardcover
9781479812929 paperback
9781479812950 electronic book
1479812951 electronic book
9781479812943 (electronic bk.)
9781479812912 hardcover
9781479812929 paperback
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2024]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 325 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
E185.86 .O935 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.23/089/96073
Summary
"A history of childhood that revises the story of manhood, race, and human hierarchy in America"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 01, 2024).
Series
Performance and American cultures.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: a Black history of prodigy, a new view on man
'Babe belov'd': Phillis Wheatley and the grammar of early American childhood
'Wilt thou bring my baby home?': Tom Wiggins and the unending Antebellum family
The anatomy of Sammy Tubbs: Black emancipation and the human's reconstruction
'Oscar Moore can tell you': unbinding brightness in the archive of a wonderful boy
'This is the end of the story no it isint': anarranging Philippa
Schuyler's scrapbook archive
Epilogue : "to be held, free".
'Babe belov'd': Phillis Wheatley and the grammar of early American childhood
'Wilt thou bring my baby home?': Tom Wiggins and the unending Antebellum family
The anatomy of Sammy Tubbs: Black emancipation and the human's reconstruction
'Oscar Moore can tell you': unbinding brightness in the archive of a wonderful boy
'This is the end of the story no it isint': anarranging Philippa
Schuyler's scrapbook archive
Epilogue : "to be held, free".