Negotiating Childhood

Kelly M. Duke Bryant is associate professor of history at Rowan University. She is author of Education as Politics: Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s–1914, and her articles have appeared in such publications as Journal of African History, International Journal of African Historical Studies, and French Colonial History.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Childhood, Child "Protection," and the Colonial State in Senegal1. The Meeting Room: Guardianship and Childhood in Post-Emancipation Senegal2. The Reformatory: Penitentiaries for the Young and the Idea of Childhood in Senegal, 1888–19403. The School: School Discipline and the Ideal African Child4. The Street: Public Spaces and Public Childhood5. The Body: Hygiene, Medicine, and Children's Health6. The Document: Chronological Age and African Childhood in Colonial SenegalConclusionSelect Bibliography of Archival Sources and Serial PublicationsNotesIndex

“Beautifully written, Negotiating Childhood draws upon thorough and creative archival research, and manages the difficult achievement of appealing equally to a range of scholarly audiences: historians of Africa, of French colonialism, and of childhood and youth.”—Sarah Duff, author of Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony: Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860–1895 and Childhood and Youth in African History “Negotiating Childhood makes a very significant contribution to the history of childhood and youth in Africa, as well as the history of colonialism and gender in Africa. Kelly Duke Bryant does a great job of connecting lived experience with documentation and policy by showing how children’s actions and experiences shaped and reshaped documentation of their lives and representations of them as children and youth.”—Corrie Decker, author of Mobilizing Zanzibari Women: The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa and The Idea of Development in Africa: A History