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This chapter explores the foundations of the discourse of the child and how it constructs US childhoods, children, and non-children in the popular imagination. The chapter also discusses the notion of innocence and its connection to the modern visualization of black children—African American and African—including the black child image in popular digital culture and in Hollywood film.
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Olson, D. (2017). Establishing the Discourse of the Child. In: Black Children in Hollywood Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48273-6_2
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