Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Playing Innocent: Childhood, Race, Performance 1 1 Tender Angels, Insensate Pickaninnies: The Divergent Paths of Racial Innocence 30 2 Scriptive Things 69 3 Everyone Is Impressed: Slavery as a Tender Embrace from Uncle Tom’s to Uncle Remus’s Cabin 92 4 The Black-and-Whiteness of Raggedy Ann 146 5 The Scripts of Black Dolls 194 Notes 245 Index 295 About the Author 308 Color plates follow page 132 This page intentionally left blank ...