Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 200
Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-78661-103-1 • Hardback • March 2020 • $135.00 • (£104.00)
978-1-78661-104-8 • eBook • March 2020 • $43.99 • (£34.00)
Karen Wells is Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London where she researches childhood, visual culture, and international development. She is the author of Childhood in a Global Perspective (Polity, 2nd edition) and Childhood Studies: Making Young Subjects (Polity).
1. Visual Political Culture, Childhood And Youth: From Object To Subject To Activist / 2. The Emergence Of A Sentimental Visual Culture / 3. ‘And Then The Kids Took It Over’: Documentary Film, Racism And The Civil Rights Movement / 4. The Melodrama Of Being A Child: NGO Representations Of Poverty / 5. ‘You Need To Be Glad That You Graduated From High School, And That You're Alive At Eighteen’: Coming-Of-Age In Black Film / 6. We’ve Got A Bright Place In The Sun: LGBTQ Coming Out And Teen Melodrama / 7. ‘I’d Be Lost Without The Weight Of You Two On My Back’ working class teens and the Western / 8. ‘On Being the Representation’ / 9. ‘We the Wounded’: Violence and Citizenship / 10. Theorising childhood, visual culture, and technology
The representation of the African American child and children of the colonial reaches of the British Empire is a crucial aspect of visual knowledge. In the first quarter of the 21st century the subjugation of Black youth and children through fatal racist violence continues, as do cultures of discrimination, imprisonment and abuse. It is necessary that histories of representation are written, read and widely taught. This book offers such a history, and will be of great benefit to high school and university students.
— Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Professor of Film, Lincoln University and Honorary Professor, UNSW