02482nam 22006014a 450 991082529100332120081013040131.00-8223-8835-910.1515/9780822388357(CKB)1000000000758048(EBL)1169278(OCoLC)262341957(SSID)ssj0000391963(PQKBManifestationID)12126202(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000391963(PQKBWorkID)10346895(PQKB)11139595(MiAaPQ)EBC1169278(DE-B1597)553952(DE-B1597)9780822388357(OCoLC)1097346403(EXLCZ)99100000000075804820081013d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCradle of liberty race, the child, and national belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois /Caroline F. LevanderDurham, N.C. Duke University Pressc20061 online resource (261 p.)New AmericanistsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-3856-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-237) and index.Introduction : natal nationalism ; the place of the child in American cultural studies -- The child and the racial politics of nation making in the slavery era -- Southern fictions and the "race" of nations along the Mexican border -- Consenting fictions, fictions of consent : the child and the nineteenth-century sentimental novel -- Transnational Twain -- Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and psychologies of race -- Raceless states: W. E. B. Du Bois and Cuba.Argues that from the late eighteeneth century through the early twentieth, American literary and political texts used the figure of the child to represent U.S. national belonging.e-Duke books scholarly collection.New Americanists.Children's rightsUnited StatesChildren in literatureUnited StatesEthnic relationsChildren's rightsChildren in literature.305.23089/00973Levander Caroline Field1964-1618983MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825291003321Cradle of liberty4196149UNINA