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OverviewChildhood 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 ""Civil Rights Childhood ""reveals how the black child has been--and continues to be--a social agent that demands change.Because children carry a compelling aura of human value and potential, images of African American children in the wake of ""Brown v. Board of Education"" 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, ""Civil Rights Childhood"" 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.Offering 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, ""Civil Rights Childhood"" ultimately shows how the photobook--and the aspirations of childhood itself--encourage cultural transformation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Katharine CapshawPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9780816694051ISBN 10: 0816694052 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 01 December 2014 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsCapshaw 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 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 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 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 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 Author InformationKatharine Capshaw is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She is the author of Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance, winner of the Children's Literature Association's 2004 award for best scholarly book. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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