{"product_id":"negotiating-childhood-french-colonialism-and-african-children-in-senegal-1848-1940-paperback-softback-9781625349217","title":"Negotiating Childhood; French Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 1848-1940 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781625349217","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNegotiating Childhood\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrench Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 1848-1940\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKelly M Duke Bryant (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781625349217\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 February 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 1 map, 4 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.34 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\u003cp\u003e“Beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eNegotiating Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e draws upon thorough and creative archival research, and manages the difficult achievement of appealing equally to a range of scholarly audiences: historians of Africa, of French colonialism, and of childhood and youth.”—\u003cb\u003eSarah Duff\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eChanging Childhoods in the Cape Colony: Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860–1895\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChildhood and Youth in African History\u003c\/i\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \t“\u003ci\u003eNegotiating Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e makes a very significant contribution to the history of childhood and youth in Africa, as well as the history of colonialism and gender in Africa. Kelly Duke Bryant does a great job of connecting lived experience with documentation and policy by showing how children’s actions and experiences shaped and reshaped documentation of their lives and representations of them as children and youth.”—\u003cb\u003eCorrie Decker\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMobilizing Zanzibari Women: The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of Development in Africa: A History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial Senegal\u003c\/b\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eNegotiating Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e explores how colonial child protection policies and African children’s responses to them produced new ways of defining, measuring, documenting, and experiencing childhood in the French colony of Senegal from 1848 to 1940. In this groundbreaking book, Kelly M. Duke Bryant takes the scholarship in new directions, offering to a literature dominated by studies of British colonies in the twentieth century a study of childhood in a French colony from the immediate post-emancipation period through the 1930s. This focus allows her to complicate the generally accepted timeline of child protection in colonial Africa and question other assumptions about children’s history on the continent. \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tThis deeply researched work uses a wide range of sources to examine children’s experiences in spaces where they encountered French discipline and surveillance, such as wardship courts, public streets, schools, juvenile reformatories, and vaccine clinics. The book shows not only how these spaces re-ordered African childhood, but also how children themselves shaped and limited French efforts to impose order, especially when the state depended on African children’s cooperation to make good on rhetoric about child “protection.” It also charts the rise of documentation in children’s lives, as colonial representatives recorded names, ages, and other details about the African children with whom they interacted. Tracing the “documented” child back to the early colonial period, \u003ci\u003eNegotiating Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e historicizes the emergence of identity documentation—so crucial to our contemporary world—and questions the naturalness of the very idea of the “child.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Childhood, Child \"Protection,\" and the Colonial State in Senegal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. The Meeting Room: Guardianship and Childhood in Post-Emancipation Senegal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. The Reformatory: Penitentiaries for the Young and the Idea of Childhood in Senegal, 1888–1940\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. The School: School Discipline and the Ideal African Child\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. The Street: Public Spaces and Public Childhood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. The Body: Hygiene, Medicine, and Children's Health\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. The Document: Chronological Age and African Childhood in Colonial Senegal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography of Archival Sources and Serial Publications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633062146328,"sku":"9781625349217","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/negotiating-childhood-french-colonialism-and-african-children-in-senegal-1848-1940-paperback-softback-9781625349217","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}