Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America by Owens, Camille
Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America by Owens, Camille

Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America

A new history of manhood, race, and hierarchy in American childhood Like Children argues that the child...
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Author: Camille Owens
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Language: English
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Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America by Owens, Camille

Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America

BD$71.17
Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America by Owens, Camille

Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America

BD$71.17
Author: Camille Owens
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A new history of manhood, race, and hierarchy in American childhood

Like Children argues that the child has been the key figure giving measure and meaning to the human in thought and culture since the early American period. Camille Owens demonstrates that white men's power at the top of humanism's order has depended on those at the bottom. As Owens shows, it was childhood's modern arc--from ignorance and dependence to reason and rights--that structured white men's power in early America: by claiming that black adults were like children, whites naturalized black subjection within the American family order. Demonstrating how Americans sharpened the child into a powerful white supremacist weapon, Owens nevertheless troubles the notion that either the child or the human have been figures of unadulterated whiteness or possess stable boundaries.

Like Children recenters the history of American childhood around black children and rewrites the story of the human through their acts. Through the stories of black and disabled children spectacularized as prodigies, Owens tracks enduring white investment in black children's power and value, and a pattern of black children performing beyond white containment. She reconstructs the extraordinary interventions and inventions of figures such as the early American poet Phillis Wheatley, the nineteenth-century pianist Tom Wiggins (Blind Tom), a child known as "Bright" Oscar Moore, and the early-twentieth century "Harlem Prodigy," Philippa Schuyler, situating each against the racial, gendered, and developmental rubrics by which they were designated prodigious exceptions. Ultimately, Like Children displaces frames of exclusion and dehumanization to explain black children's historical and present predicament, revealing the immense cultural significance that black children have negotiated and what they have done to reshape the human in their own acts.

Author: Camille Owens
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 07/30/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781479812929


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/13/2024

About the Author
Camille Owens is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at McGill University.
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