Negotiating Childhood – French Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 184…

Negotiating ChildhoodFrench Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 18481940\nAuthor(s): Kelly M Duke Bryant\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press, United States\nImprint: University of Massachusetts Press\nISBN-13: 9781625349224, 978-1625349224\nSynopsis\nA groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial Senegal\n\nNegotiating Childhood explores how colonial child protection policies and African childrens 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 A.