Books

Join us as we review A Year of Books: a look back at the monographs and edited collections that we featured in 2019, Day 3 of A Year in a Week.

Our Featured Book this week is Chinese Student Migration and Selective Citizenship: Mobility, Community and Identity between China and the United States by Lisong Liu. Read a review of his book from the JHCY, or listen to Liu's interview by Shauna Lo, here.

This revisited episode of Childhood: History and Critique offers a conversation with Corinne Field, author of The Struggle for Equal Adulthood. Listen to this episode of the SHCY podcast.

Listen to Dr. Ruthie Yow discuss her latest monograph, Students of the Dream: Resegregation in a Southern City with poet Dr. Lauren Neefe. Or click to read a review of her monograph from the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. 

Dr. Catherine Rymph discusses her new monograph, Raising Government Children: A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State with her colleagues, Dr. Cassandra Yacovazzi and Dr. Sara Gable. Listen here.

Joel P. Rhodes discusses his book, Growing Up in a Land Called Honalee: The Sixties in the Lives of American Children, with Dr. Lily Santoro of Southeast Missouri State University. Listen here.

Take a listen as Joy Schultz discusses her monograph, Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and US Colonialism in the Pacific with her peer, Emily Manktelow.

Karen Renner explores the horrors of evil child narratives in her monograph, Evil Children in the Popular Imagination, in a conversation with Trevor Warren and Courtney Brooks. Listen here.

Jennifer Helgren discusses her new monograph, American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War with Traci Roberts-Camps. Listen here.

Co-editors Brittany Tullis and Mark Heimermann discuss their collection, Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics, with Qiana Whitted. Listen here.

Rebecca Onion discusses her book, Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States, with Deanna Day. Listen here.

Richard Ivan Jobs explores transnational youth histories in an interview with Patrick Ryan, plus the JHCY review of his book Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe. Listen here.

This revisited episode of Childhood: History and Critique offers a conversation with Ansgar Allen, author of Benign Violence: Education in and Beyond the Age of Reason. Listen to the SHCY podcast episode, here.

Barry C. Feld's The Evolution of the Juvenile Court: Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice is this week's featured book. Listen to Dr. Feld discuss his work, here.

Learn about Clare Daniel's monograph, Mediating Morality: the Politics of Teen Pregnancy in the Post-Welfare Era. Listen to her interview here.

Robert Niezen and Patrick Ryan discuss the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada and Canada's history of Indigenous residential schooling. Listen to the SHCY podcast episode, here.

Anna Mae Duane on Child Slavery before and after Emancipation: An Argument for Child Centred Slavery Studies. Listen to her SHCY podcast episode, originally from the C19 podcast, here.

Andrew R. Ruis discuss food culture in American school food programs Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States. Listen to his interview here.

Karen Vallgårda has a conversation with host Ning de Coninck-Smith, about Vallgårda's book Imperial Childhoods and Christian Missions: Education and Emotions in South India and Denmark. Listen to this episode of the SHCY podcast.

Slavery, Abolition, and Childhood in Jamaica, 1788-1838 by Colleen Vasconcellos. Listen to her interview on the SHCY podcast, here.