{"product_id":"negotiating-childhood-kelly-m-duke-bryant-9781625349224","title":"Negotiating Childhood: French Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 1848-1940","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial Senegal\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNegotiating Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e explores how colonial child protection policies and African children's responses to them produced new ways of defining, measuring, documenting, and experiencing childhood in the French colony of Senegal from 1848 to 1940. In this groundbreaking book, Kelly M. Duke Bryant takes the scholarship in new directions, offering to a literature dominated by studies of British colonies in the twentieth century a study of childhood in a French colony from the immediate post-emancipation period through the 1930s. This focus allows her to complicate the generally accepted timeline of child protection in colonial Africa and question other assumptions about children's history on the continent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This deeply researched work uses a wide range of sources to examine children's experiences in spaces where they encountered French discipline and surveillance, such as wardship courts, public streets, schools, juvenile reformatories, and vaccine clinics. The book shows not only how these spaces re-ordered African childhood, but also how children themselves shaped and limited French efforts to impose order, especially when the state depended on African children's cooperation to make good on rhetoric about child \"protection.\" It also charts the rise of documentation in children's lives, as colonial representatives recorded names, ages, and other details about the African children with whom they interacted. Tracing the \"documented\" child back to the early colonial period, \u003ci\u003eNegotiating Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e historicizes the emergence of identity documentation--so crucial to our contemporary world--and questions the naturalness of the very idea of the \"child.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelly M. Duke Bryant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 162534922X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625349224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Kelly M. Duke Bryant","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46867298320639,"sku":"9781625349224","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4a3b64e6-a2d7-4a95-9f3d-1eb690281994.jpg?v=1747454406","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/negotiating-childhood-kelly-m-duke-bryant-9781625349224","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}