05337oam 22010814a 450 991081019220332120230124193055.01-4798-0683-81-4798-4059-910.18574/9781479840595(CKB)3710000000431251(EBL)2034373(OCoLC)910934045(SSID)ssj0001481291(PQKBManifestationID)12616512(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001481291(PQKBWorkID)11498802(PQKB)11093322(StDuBDS)EDZ0001533149(MiAaPQ)EBC3564336(DE-B1597)548339(DE-B1597)9781479840595(MdBmJHUP)muse87038(MiAaPQ)EBC2034373(Au-PeEL)EBL2034373(EXLCZ)99371000000043125120150531d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAge in AmericaThe Colonial Era to the Present /edited by Corinne T. Field and Nicholas L. SyrettNew York :New York University Press,[2015]Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2021©[2015]1 online resource (347 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4798-3191-3 1-4798-7001-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I. Age in early America -- Part II. Age in the long nineteenth century -- Part III. Age in modern America."Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our lives--precise moments when our rights and opportunities change--when we become eligible to cast a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare. This volume brings together scholars of childhood, adulthood, and old age to explore how and why particular ages have come to define the rights and obligations of American citizens. Since the founding of the nation, Americans have relied on chronological age to determine matters as diverse as who can marry, work, be enslaved, drive a car, or qualify for a pension. Contributors to this volume explore what meanings people in the past ascribed to specific ages and whether or not earlier Americans believed the same things about particular ages as we do. The means by which Americans imposed chronological boundaries upon the variable process of growing up and growing old offers a paradigmatic example of how people construct cultural meaning and social hierarchy from embodied experience. Further, chronological age always intersects with other socially constructed categories such as gender, race, and sexuality. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, taking up a variety of distinct subcultures--from frontier children and antebellum slaves to twentieth-century Latinas--Age in America makes a powerful case that age has always been a key index of citizenship"--Publisher's website.Social conditionsfast(OCoLC)fst01919811Social classesfast(OCoLC)fst01122346Political culturefast(OCoLC)fst01069263Identity (Psychology)fast(OCoLC)fst00966892Citizenshipfast(OCoLC)fst00861909AgingSocial aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst00800348AgePolitical aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst00800132Age groupsfast(OCoLC)fst00800174SOCIAL SCIENCEMinority StudiesbisacshSOCIAL SCIENCEDiscrimination & Race RelationsbisacshPolitical cultureUnited StatesHistoryCitizenshipUnited StatesHistoryAgingSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryComing of ageSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryIdentity (Psychology)United StatesHistorySocial classesUnited StatesHistoryAge groupsUnited StatesHistoryAgePolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistoryAgeSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesfastUnited StatesSocial conditionsHistory.Social conditions.Social classes.Political culture.Identity (Psychology)Citizenship.AgingSocial aspects.AgePolitical aspects.Age groups.SOCIAL SCIENCEMinority Studies.SOCIAL SCIENCEDiscrimination & Race Relations.Political cultureHistory.CitizenshipHistory.AgingSocial aspectsHistory.Coming of ageSocial aspectsHistory.Identity (Psychology)History.Social classesHistory.Age groupsHistory.AgePolitical aspectsHistory.AgeSocial aspectsHistory.305.260973Syrett Nicholas L.Field Corinne T.1965-MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910810192203321Age in America3958314UNINA