Taking Children: A History of American Terror

by Laura Briggs

Book Overview

"You have to take the children away."--Donald Trump

Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers. As Laura Briggs's sweeping narrative shows, the practice played out on the auction block, in the boarding schools designed to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520343670
• ISBN13: 9780520343672
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"