{"product_id":"civil-rights-childhood-picturing-liberation-in-african-american-photobooks-hardback-9780816694044","title":"Civil Rights Childhood; Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks (Hardback) 9780816694044","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCivil Rights Childhood\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePicturing Liberation in African American Photobooks\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKatharine Capshaw (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816694044\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 December 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages, 71\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 17.8 x 5.1 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \"Katharine Capshaw’s new study-intersecting photography, children’s literature, and the civil rights movement-is a rich and strikingly original addition to the growing scholarship on African American childhood. Many scholars will appreciate and be indebted to this important work.\" -Gerald Early, Washington University in St. Louis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Capshaw’s analysis and contextualization of the works in question break entirely new ground, offering original ways of thinking about how the photographic book operated as a medium particularly suited to African-American authors, child readers, and messages about civil rights.\" -Julia Mickenberg, University of Texas at Austin\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is an important and engaging book that offers one of the few extended discussions of depictions of black childhood. \"-\u003ci\u003eInternational Review of Children’s Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCivil Rights Childhood \u003c\/i\u003ewill no doubt be an influential text in our understanding of the visual representations of black childhood now and in our future.\"-\u003ci\u003eMELUS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating, well-conceived and empirically rich study.\"-\u003ci\u003eVisual Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"To read Capshaw is. . . to receive a lesson on the cultural importance and responsibility of literary scholarship. \u003ci\u003eCivil Rights Childhood \u003c\/i\u003enot only advances our scholarly understanding of the politics of childhood, but also enables readers to better contextualize so many of the images and injustices we continue to encounter.\"-\u003ci\u003eInternational Research Society for Children’s Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Deeply researched and engagingly written.\"-\u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Childhood and Youth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCivil Rights Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e is notable for its steadfast and vocal commitment to its political project. Capshaw’s continual engagement with the real implications of the work she analyzes and also of her own would make this book a useful one to use in the classroom.\"-\u003ci\u003eCAA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Impeccably researched. Capshaw does some incredibly impressive literary recovery work, shedding light on texts completely unfamiliar to many contemporary scholars of either children’s literature or African American studies.\"-\u003ci\u003eChildren’s Literature Association Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChildhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movement may have faded from historical memory, but these qualities received considerable photographic attention in that tumultuous era. Katharine Capshaw’s \u003cem\u003eCivil Rights Childhood \u003c\/em\u003ereveals how the black child has been-and continues to be-a social agent that demands change. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause children carry a compelling aura of human value and potential, images of African American children in the wake of \u003cem\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/em\u003e had a powerful effect on the fight for civil rights. In the iconography of Emmett Till and the girls murdered in the 1963 Birmingham church bombings, Capshaw explores the function of children’s photographic books and the image of the black child in social justice campaigns for school integration and the civil rights movement. Drawing on works ranging from documentary photography, coffee-table and art books, and popular historical narratives and photographic picture books for the very young, \u003cem\u003eCivil Rights Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e sheds new light on images of the child and family that portrayed liberatory models of blackness, but it also considers the role photographs played in the desire for consensus and closure with the rise of multiculturalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering rich analysis, Capshaw recovers many obscure texts and photographs while at the same time placing major names like Langston Hughes, June Jordan, and Toni Morrison in dialogue with lesser-known writers. An important addition to thinking about representation and politics, \u003cem\u003eCivil Rights Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e ultimately shows how the photobook-and the aspirations of childhood itself-encourage cultural transformation.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Friendship, Sympathy, Social Change\u003cbr\u003e2. Pictures and Nonfiction: Conduct and Coffee Tables\u003cbr\u003e3. Today: Framing Freedom in Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e4. The Black Arts Movement: Childhood as Liberatory Process\u003cbr\u003e5. Blurring the Childhood Image: Representations of the Civil Rights Narrative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: A Text for Trayvon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570085228824,"sku":"9780816694044","price":56.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/civil-rights-childhood-picturing-liberation-in-african-american-photobooks-hardback-9780816694044","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}