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Taking Children: A History of American Terror

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Availability:In StockContributor:Laura BriggsPublish date:2021-08-10Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520385771ISBN-10:520385772UPC:9780520385771Book Category:History, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Human Rights, Ethnic StudiesSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCAZZS4X9E

"You have to take the children away."--Donald Trump

Taking Children
argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers. As Laura Briggs's sweeping narrative shows, the practice played out on the auction block, in the boarding schools designed to pacify the Native American population, in the foster care system used to put down the Black freedom movement, in the US's anti-Communist coups in Central America, and in the moral panic about "crack babies." In chilling detail we see how Central Americans were made into a population that could be stripped of their children and how every US administration beginning with Reagan has put children of immigrants and refugees in detention camps. Yet these tactics of terror have encountered opposition from every generation, and Briggs challenges us to stand and resist in this powerful corrective to American history.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520385771ISBN-10:520385772UPC:9780520385771Book Category:History, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Human Rights, Ethnic StudiesSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCAZZS4X9E
Laura Briggs is Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is author of How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump, Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption, and Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico.
Publisher: University of California Press

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