Innocence versus Savagery in the Recapitulation Theory of Child Study: Depictions in Picturebooks and Other Cultural Materials
2018; International Research Society for Children's Literature; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3366/ircl.2018.0274
ISSN1755-6201
Autores Tópico(s)Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
ResumoThis article examines the contentions of recapitulation theory in child development study as materialised in images and texts of children's books, and how these contributed to the ideological hegemony of possible and impossible childhoods, with the white innocent and Black savage as counterpoints. In addition, it identifies the continuity of this perspective both in popular culture and academic denials that such racialised distinctions are problematic.
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