Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America (Performance and American Cultures, 5) (coming soon- July 30, 2024)

Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America (Performance and American Cultures, 5) (coming soon- July 30, 2024)A new history of manhood, race, and hierarchy in American childhood Like Children argues that the child has been the key figure giving measure and meaning to the human in thought and culture since the early American period. Camille Owens demonstrates that white mens power at the top of humanisms order has depended on those at the bottom. As Owens shows, it was childhoods modern arcfrom ignorance and dependence to reason and rightsthat structured white

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Spiritual Redemption and freedom for those who feel they have sinned and that their lives are tainted or irreparably damaged by wrong actions

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and becoming the bedrock of civil rights activism

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Darius recounts his childhood as the son of a single mother in Charleston

” — Washington Blade“[An] exquisite memoir

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1945240016