简介
From the Publisher: Hidden in Plain Sight tells the tragic untold story of children's rights in America. It asks why the United States today, alone among nations, rejects the most universally embraced human-rights document in history, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This book is a call to arms for America to again be a leader in human rights, and to join the rest of the civilized world in recognizing that the thirst for justice is not for adults alone. Barbara Bennett Woodhouse explores the meaning of children's rights throughout American history, interweaving the childhood stories of iconic figures such as Benjamin Franklin with those of children less known but no less courageous, like the heroic youngsters who marched for civil rights. How did America become a place where twelve-year-old Lionel Tate could be sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 1999 death of a young playmate? In answering questions like this, Woodhouse challenges those who misguidedly believe that America's children already have more rights than they need, or that children's rights pose a threat to parental autonomy or family values. She reveals why fundamental human rights and principles of dignity, equality, privacy, protection, and voice are essential to a child's journey into adulthood, and why understanding rights for children leads to a better understanding of human rights for all. Compassionate, wise, and deeply moving, Hidden in Plain Sight will force an examination of our national resistance-and moral responsibility-to recognize children's rights.
目录
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Ain¿t I a Person?
I How to Think about Childhood
II How to Think about Children¿s Rights
The Privacy Principle: Stories of Bondage and Belonging
III Frederick Douglass: Boys in Slavery and Servitude
IV Dred Scott¿s Daughters: Girls at the Intersection of Race and Patriarchy
V Growing up in State Custody: ¿Tony¿ and ¿John G.¿
The Agency Principle: Stories of Voice and Participation
VI The Printer¿s Apprentice: Ben Franklin and Youth Speech
VII Youth in the Civil Rights Movement: John Lewis and Sheyanne Webb
The Equality Principle: Stories of Equal Opportunity
VIII Old Maids and Little Women: Louisa Alcott and William Cather
IX Breaking the Prison of Disability: Helen Keller and ¿Mara¿
The Dignity Principle: Stories of Resistance and Resilience
X Hide and Survive: Anne Frank and ¿Liu¿
XI Newsboys, Entrepreneurs and ¿Evelyn¿: Children at Work
The Protection Principle: Stories of Guilt and Innocence
XII Telling the Scariest Secrets: Maya Angelou and ¿Jeannie¿
XIII Age and the Idea of Innocence: ¿Amal¿ and Lionel Tate
Conclusion: The Future of Rights
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations[CLC1]
The Little Newsboy
Frederick Douglass as a young man.
Lizzie and Eliza Scott with Dred and Harriet Scott.
Benjamin Franklin as a printer¿s apprentice.
John Lewis on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
Willa Cather in her youth dressed as William.
Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan.
Young workers march, carrying signs reading ¿abolish child slavery,¿ in early 1900¿s.
Anne Frank on a West German postage stamp, 1979.
Author, at about age 4.
Lionel Tate, age 14, on trial for murder.
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