... a child-centered lens using the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, works such as On Grandpa’s Farm, Sleep Tight Farm, and Anywhere Farm portray children as valuable partners in agricultural activities, collaborating...

..., ambiguities, nonteleological ways of conceiving growth, and, specifically, how the protagonist never has a “coming out” moment. Donovan’s adolescent protagonist, Davy, resists what Kathryn Bond Stockton calls, in The Queer Child, “the vertical, forward-motion metaphor of growing up,” instead...

... instead encourage intergenerational collaboration. Through privately printed and publicly circulated texts, Stevenson and Osbourne explored the relationships that surround and indeed comprise the figure of the writer: between adult and child, between author and businessman, and among multiple contributors...

... the expectations of adults, upending traditional adult-child relationships to entertain the possibility of child agency—especially in topsy-turvy children’s literature plots. While the upside-down logic of the child in charge was a quaint notion for many Victorians, a survey of real and imagined child authorities...

...This chapter explores intergenerational collaborations that draw upon the resources of the child artists. It puts side-by-side changing perspectives on art by children and new modes in illustrations for children to chart changing perceptions of children...

... compete directly with the Child Development Group of Mississippi, with whom Hamer was aligned. 1964 Democratic National Convention Atlantic City N J Belzoni Miss Child Development Group of Mississippi Civil Rights Act of 1964 Head Start Jackson Miss Johnson Lyndon Baines Lee George Lee Herbert...

...This chapter examines the kinds of paid work undertaken by African American women who moved to northern cities from the South during the Second Great Migration circa 1940–1970 and its effect on their families. It discusses the employment of women migrants as providers of child care and how...

... affiliation embodiment identity inbetweenness inclusion recognition space Trinidad and Tobago difference biraciality race hair phenotype politics hybridity mixedness bodies Dougla Douglarisation Racialised Identity Raising a Dougla child Self/Other “ … you are just Dougla”; we end...

... superiority and relegates it to the level of biocentric, nature-based inquiry. The Pooh texts, on the other hand, are profoundly humanist, exalting the human child, and their ability to create reality. This chapter serves as a counterpoint to Chapter 9. Eeyore humanism Milne Christopher Robin New York...

...This chapter explores the song art and sensibilities of Lucinda Williams, at one time declared “America’s best songwriter” by Time magazine (2001) and the only singer-songwriter in this study to have met O’Connor personally, as a young child. Williams was raised in the shadow...

..., literal fathers with responsibilities like jobs and child care. This pattern crosses studio lines, appearing in Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man (Peyton Reed, 2015), Warner Brothers’ Suicide Squad (David Ayer, 2016), and Fox’s Logan (James Mangold, 2017). More...

...This chapter examines the intriguing topic of child mediums during the American Spiritualist period of the nineteenth century, arguing that debates around the child medium’s agency or lack thereof speak to concerns about child agency and adult manipulation central to children’s and young adult...

... drawings were exhibited at The Women’s Museum in Denmark. This chapter explores the interpretive and the imaginative power of the child artists, asking: “If we follow the lines of children’s drawings engaging with the narrative lines of a fairy tale, where might they take us? What might CYA look like from...

...The author finds that recording children as they engaged in verbal intercourse taught her many things: The author, herself, by trial and error, learned to listen, record, and appreciate the verbal art of children. This is an experience many adults might want to emulate. The recorded child lore...

... and Dick Cheney in the OEO and staff in the Office of Child Development in their efforts to undermine black empowerment through the war on poverty. The chapter then picks up the story of Jackson’s antipoverty program, Community Services Association, illustrating how these national developments shaped...

...The final section of this book reflects on the social, economic, and political changes that transformed Mississippi over the years of the war on poverty. It exposes the changes in the war against the war on poverty over time. The mechanisms utilized by Senator Stennis in his opposition to the Child...

... to a suicide attempt on the part of De Palma's mother. The comparisons, however, extend beyond the trope of the avenging child, moving forward to a more mature understanding of a one-sided, childish perception De Palma and Sandra's fathers. In 1959 New Orleans, Michael and Elizabeth Courtland (Cliff Robertson...

...This chapter considers an “uneasy yet potentially fruitful confluence” between modernist writing and children's literature in the only Faulkner tale penned specifically for children. Drawing on “the Romantic reverence for the child as transcendent and inspirational,” a reverence qualified to some...

... with the real.” It also considers one of the comics' most prevalent masks—the child; puzzles and other ludic devices in Epileptic, Cancer Vixen, and Fun Home; self-portraiture in contemporary graphic novels; and how history operates in certain autographic texts...

...This chapter focuses on one of the comics' most prevalent masks—the child, considered the default face of American comics. The child or youth is an emblem of the comics and an archetype of its mediation. The child I-cons of autography romanticize youth's vistas and vicissitudes to affirm...