Playing with History
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a legacy of white supremacy
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American children
American Girl
American Girl Company
American identity
American Toy Industry
amusement parks
Antique Dolls
Author_Molly Rosner
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childhood
children
children consumer culture
children's cultural products
children’s cultural products
citizenship
Clark Doll
Clark Doll Study
class
Cold War
Cold War stories
consumerism
COP=United States
cultural products
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dolls
domestic girlhood
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family
family fun
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fun
gender identity
governmental interventions
historical items
historical narrative
history
History books
Landmark Books
Language_English
media studies
objects and spaces
over consumption
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patriotism
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race
softlaunch
The Cold War
themed amusement parks
toy
toy industry
toys
twentieth century
types of media
western frontier
Product details
- ISBN 9781978822078
- Weight: 45g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 May 2021
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Since the advent of the American toy industry, children's cultural products have attempted to teach and sell ideas of American identity. By examining cultural products geared towards teaching children American history, Playing With History highlights the changes and constancies in depictions of the American story and ideals of citizenship over the last one hundred years. This book examines political and ideological messages sold to children throughout the twentieth century, tracing the messages conveyed by racist toy banks, early governmental interventions meant to protect the toy industry, influences and pressures surrounding Cold War stories of the western frontier, the fractures visible in the American story at a mid-century history themed amusement park. The study culminates in a look at the successes and limitations of the American Girl Company empire.
MOLLY ROSNER received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark. She has spent her career working as an educator at cultural institutions and universities in New York City, where she was born and raised.
