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Childhood and Youth

 

Cha, Frank, “Growing Up in the Margins: Asian American Children in the Literature of the New South,” Southern Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2009), 128–44.

Fujimoto, Shigeo, “Trans-Pacific Boy Scout Movement in the Early Twentieth Century: The Case of the Boy Scout Movement in Osaka, Japan,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 29–43.

Howlett, David J., “Eating Vegetables to Build Zion: rlds Children in the 1920s,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Winter 2009), 1–22.

Hubka, David, Wendy Hovdestad, and Lil Tonmyr, “Child Maltreatment in Disney Animated Feature Films, 1937–2006,” Social Science Journal, 46 (Sept. 2009), 427–41.

Nihei, Mariko, “1940 nedai shoki rosanzerusu niokeru Mekishiko-kei beikokujin wakamono shudan no jokyo” (Mexican American youths in the early 1940s), Amerika Taiheiyo Kenkyu (Tokyo), 8 (2008), 151–64. In Japanese.

 

Alcorn, Aaron L., “Modeling Behavior: Boyhood, Engineering, and the Model Airplane in American Culture” (Case Western Reserve University, 2008). Order No. DA3326297.

Hollenbeck, Bryn Varley, “Making Space for Children: The Material Culture of American Childhoods, 1900–1950” (University of Delaware, 2008). Order No. DA3325489.

 

Jacobs, Margaret D., White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xxxiv, 557 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1100-1.)

Kasinitz, Philip, et al., Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xii, 420 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-674-02803-6.)

Maira, Sunaina Marr, Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xii, 335 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4391-2. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4409-4.)

Marre, Diana, and Laura Briggs, eds., International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children. (New York: New York University Press, 2009. viii, 312 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8147-9101-1. Paper, $24.00, isbn 978-0-8147-9102-8.)

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