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Childhood and Youth

 

Arceneaux, Noah, “Paul Reveres of Early Radio: The Boy Scouts and the Origin of Broadcasting,” Studies in Popular Culture, 31 (Spring 2009), 81–100.

Carter, Shannon K., “Gender and Childbearing Experiences: Revisiting O’Brien’s Dialectics of Reproduction,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 21 (Summer 2009), 121–43.

Hostutler, Jason L., “Kids, Cops, and Beboppers: Milwaukee’s Post-WWII Battle with Juvenile Delinquency,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 93 (Autumn 2009), 14–27. Heavily illustrated.

Plant, Nancy K., “She Taught Him to ‘Hear With His Eyes,’” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 93 (Autumn 2009), 36–47. Heavily illustrated.

Thomas, Kevin J. A., “Parental Characteristics and the Schooling Progress of the Children of Immigrant and U.S.-Born Blacks,” Demography, 46 (Aug. 2009), 513–34.

 

Bruce, Amanda Lynn, “Creating Consumers and Protecting Children: Radio, Early Television, and the American Child, 1930–1960” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008). Order No. DA3340090.

Elman, Julie Passanante, “Medicalizing Edutainment: Enforcing Disability in the Teen Body, 1970–2000” (George Washington University, 2009). Order No. DA3338902.

Rasmus, Stacy Michelle, “Indigenous Emotional Economies in Alaska: Surviving Youth in the Village” (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2008). Order No. DA3337648.

Rosenberg, Heidi Matiyow, “Federal Policy toward Delinquent Youth: Legislative and Programmatic Milestones from Kennedy to Ford, 1960–1976” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3343198.

 

Werner, Emmy E., Passages to America: Oral Histories of Child Immigrants from Ellis Island and Angel Island. (Dulles: Potomac, 2009. xiv, 177 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59797-296-3.)

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