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Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus

The American Studies Association’s Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus invites all interested 2008 ASA conference attendees to attend the following four events, to be held at the annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct. 16-19, in the Albquerque Convention Center.

1) Caucus-Sponsored Panel

Disability & Youth Culture: “Mental Defective” Embodiment, Special Education, and the Brain
Friday, Oct. 17, 2:00-3:45, Taos Room

Chair: Michael Bérubé (Pennsylvania State University, University Park Main Campus (PA))

Presenters:
Mona Gleason (University of British Columbia (Canada))
Navigating the Pedagogy of Failure: Medicine and Education Encounters the Disabled Child in English Canada, 1900-1960

Beth Ferri (Syracuse University (NY)), *David John Connor (City University of New York, Hunter College (NY))I was the special ed. girl: Urban Working-class Young Women of Color

Julie Passanante Elman (George Washington University (DC))
Normative Neurology: Disability and Teen Sexuality in the Decade of the Brain

Commentator: Michael Bérubé

2) Related Panel of Interest

At the Crossroads of Children’s Studies and American Studies: Intersections, Possibilities, Challenges
Saturday, Oct. 18, 10-11:45, Tijeras Room

Chair: Carol J. Singley (Rutgers University, Camden (NJ))
Presenter: Anna Mae Duane (University of Connecticut (CT))
Presenter: Paula S. Fass (University of California, Berkeley (CA))
Presenter: Lucia Hodgson (University of Southern California (CA))
Presenter: Caroline F. Levander (Rice University (TX))
Presenter: Karen Sánchez-Eppler (Amherst College (MA))

3) Related Panel of Interest

Coloring Outside the Lines: Performing Race in Children’s Books
Saturday, Oct. 18, 12:00-1:45, Santa Ana Room

Chair: Cecelia Tichi (Vanderbilt University (TN))

Presenters:
Jennifer A. Hughes (Emory University (GA))
The Right to Laugh: Children, Race, and Humorous Publication in Antebellum America

Michelle H. Martin (Clemson University (SC))
Performing Race, Performing Music & Black Identity: The Sad-Faced Boys of Arna Bontemps

Philip Nel (Kansas State University (KS))
The Black Cat in the Hat: Seuss and Race in the 1950s

4) Annual Business Meeting of the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus

Thursday, Oct. 16, 11:45-1:15, Nambe Room

For further information or to join our caucus, please visit our website at http://www.theasa.net/caucus_youth/
or e-mail the caucus organizers, Bill Bush (william.bush@tamuk.edu) and Adam Golub (agolub@fullerton.edu).

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Caucus-related events at 2007 ASA:

1) Business Meeting of the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus

WHEN? Saturday, Oct. 13, 12-1:30, Rm. 501

2) “Childhood and Youth Studies: Surveying an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field.”

“Breakfast of Champions” Roundtable Panel for Graduate Students, co-sponsored with the ASA Students’ Committee

Panel Participants:

Paula Fass, UC-Berkeley; Myra Bluebond-Langner, Rutgers University; William Bush, UNLV

WHEN? Saturday, Oct. 13, 8 AM, Salon CD.

3) Keywords in the Historical Study of Children and Youth

Chair: Lynne Vallone, Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers U.

Panel Participants:

“Character”: Jay Mechling, American Studies, U. of California, Davis

“Innocence”: Leslie Paris, History, U. of British Columbia

“Consumer Culture”: Daniel Thomas Cook, Department of Childhood Studies,

Rutgers U.

“Politics”: Julia Mickenberg, American Studies, U. of Texas-Austin

Comment: Lynne Vallone, Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers U.

WHEN? Friday, Oct. 12, 2-3:45, Rm. 412

4) Forty Years of Juvenile Justice Studies in North America: Revisiting Anthony M. Platt’s _The Child Savers_ (1969, 1977)

Chair: Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Chicana/o Studies, U. of California, Davis

Panel Participants:

Anthony M. Platt, School of Social Work, California State U., Sacramento

Mary Odem, Women’s Studies and History, Emory University

Tamara Myers, History, U. of British Columbia

Geoff Ward, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern U.

William Bush, History, U. of Nevada-Las Vegas

Comment: The Audience

WHEN? Friday, Oct. 12, 8-9:45, Rm. 412

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Community Blog

Who We Are

This caucus seeks an increased and organized presence within ASA for interdisciplinary approaches to the study of children and youth. We believe a Children and Youth Studies Caucus would provide a forum for showcasing the growing range and diversity of scholarly work in this subject area. In addition, the Caucus will draw new scholars into the orbit of ASA from disciplines such as education, anthropology, and Childhood Studies. It will enhance the ASA’s membership and annual conference program while also fostering communication between scholars who might otherwise never meet.

Impressionistic evidence suggests that the study of children and youth represents a rapidly growing field of inquiry. Practically every major academic press at the recent ASA meeting featured at least one and frequently two or more new titles dealing with children’s literature, public schooling, youth culture, and juvenile justice. Institutions of higher education, both in and out of the United States, increasingly offer undergraduate and sometimes graduate degree programs in Childhood Studies. These programs are explicitly interdisciplinary in approach, mirroring the methodological and epistemological questions currently being asked by American Studies scholars. For example, the Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers University supports “interdisciplinary inquiry into the lives of children in the city of Camden, the U.S., and abroad” and offers “innovative and interdisciplinary courses, research and service internships that equip university students and the public to make informed decisions concerning children and youth.” We believe that this program will be replicated in universities and colleges elsewhere, and that a coming generation of scholars will produce important and interesting work that should find a home at ASA.

Already, historians who study children and youth have created their own organization, the Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY), which has grown rapidly since its inception in 1999. SHCY sponsors its own listserv on H-Net (H-Childhood), publishes a newsletter, and hosts a semi-annual conference that brings together leading historians in this unique sub-field. However, a great many scholars who study children and youth are not historians and must look to other venues for their work and other mediums for the exchange of ideas. We believe the ASA can accomplish this worthwhile goal via a Children and Youth Studies Caucus.

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