Reviews

Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein

jenna0010's review against another edition

5.0

This was endlessly interesting. Dolls, cuddling, violence, topsy-turvy intimacies between blackness and whiteness, childhood, innocence, forgetting, and American projects of racial hierarchies. I am now so interested in dolls and other childhood things...

farkle's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

I will never look at dolls (and toys) the same way again, which is a big deal for a collections manager in a children’s museum. A fascinating read how material culture as archive and ways to “read” an object… or thing.