Ambivalent Childhoods: Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child Breslow Jacob
Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what "the child" makes possibleThe concept of childhood contains many contested and ambivalent…
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Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what "the child" makes possibleThe concept of childhood contains many contested and ambivalent meanings that have extraordinary implications, particularly for those staking their claim for belonging and justice on the wish for inclusion within it. In Ambivalent Childhoods, Jacob Breslow examines contemporary U.S. social justice movements (including Black Lives Matter, transfeminism, queer youth activism, and antideportation movements) to discover and reveal how childhood operates within and against them.Ambivalent Childhoods brings together critical race, trans, feminist, queer, critical migration, and psychoanalytic theories to explore the role of childhood in shaping and challenging the disposability of young black life, the steadfastness of the