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Olive Pierce: Children, Cambridge, Iraq

September 13, 2016 by William Eaton

By您好, yangyang Geng   Memory heals the scars of time. Photography documents the wounds. — Michael Ignatieff[1] It requires constant vigilance to see people as they are. — Olive Pierce    The Portraits of the Jefferson Park Housing Project in Cambridge and No Easy Roses Olive Pierce was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1925 and died on May 23, 2016. She was a lifelong photographer and political activist. She was educated at Vassar College and, in 1948, she traveled with […]

Categories: Article • Tags: adolescence, childhood, children, girls, Iraq, photography, war

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Identity, Erikson, and the Third Phase of Life

February 28, 2016 by Ed Mooney

I remember in the ’60s being fascinated by the writing of Erik Erikson. I’m not sure if he’s read much today. But there I was last week in the quiet of my new home, Portland, Maine, in the quiet of Longfellow Books, gazing fondly at the titles: Young Man Luther, Gandhi’s Truth, Childhood and Society. Beyond the books I had warm, appreciative feelings for the man. His many books portrayed exemplary persons. He did not stall with the lame and […]

Categories: Ed Mooney, ZiR • Tags: childhood, ethics, philosophy, reading

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Halloween as Social Movement

November 2, 2015 by fritztucker

In Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (Holt Paperbacks, 2007), Barbara Ehrenreich writes about the evolution of carnivals; from tribal societies masking and dancing to manufacture group solidarity (Intro, Ch. 1); to feudal festivals that challenged oppressive gender and class relations (Ch. 4). Writes Ehrenreich: Whatever social category you had been boxed into–male or female, rich or poor–carnival was a chance to escape from it. No aspect of carnival has attracted more scholarly attention than the tradition of mocking the powerful, […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiR • Tags: art, books, capitalism, childhood, children, civil rights, gender, History, homosexuality, law, literature, love, politics, social justice, women

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Jane Jacobs: Intuition vs. Evidence

August 31, 2015 by fritztucker

After having read countless authors who cite Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and having intuitively come to many Jane Jacobs-esque conclusions on my own over the years, I finally decided it was time to read the original work. Many of the conclusions Jacobs comes to resonate with my personal experience. Critiquing the notion that parks are safer for children than streets, Jacobs writes: “what significant change does occur if children are transferred from a lively city street to […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: books, childhood, children, civil rights, History, literature, New York City, social justice, women, writing

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Narcissism in children

July 13, 2015 by Alexia Raynal

Narcissistic individuals feel superior to others, fantasize about personal successes, and believe they deserve special treatment. When they feel humiliated, they often lash out aggressively or even violently. “Origins of narcissism in children,” PANS 2015    Most people associate narcissism with adults, but today’s headlines suggest it is now children who are being pointed at for their narcissistic attitudes. Earlier this year, a team of child development and psychology researchers in the Netherlands and the US published an article about […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, Eddie Brummelman, narcissism, Origins of narcissism, social science

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What is Neglect, and Who is Responsible?

June 22, 2015 by fritztucker

Last December, here at Zeteo, I questioned the naturalistic theory that stress induces African-American parents to abuse their children at greater rates than do European-Americans (even when accounting for income disparity). Citing Jared Diamond‘s observation that communities residing in more dangerous environments tend to engage in harsher and more frequent physical punishment of children, I posed the rationalist theory that perhaps dangerous environmental conditions, including racial policing, are responsible for racial disparities in child abuse. During this most recent spring semester, however, one of my students […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: African-Americans, capitalism, childhood, children, crime, gender, law, politics, race

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THERE IWAS UNDER M YROCK

June 15, 2015 by Alexia Raynal

Earlier this year, New York’s iconic Scholastic store in SoHo permanently closed. I never visited the store while it was open, but I got a glimpse of its history while visiting the small exhibit that was put in its place. The larger piece in the exhibit (displayed in an entrance window) is a scroll-shaped canvas with an illustration of a child dragging herself out from underneath a big rock. The upper part of the canvas features a text box whose words are arranged in […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: art, childhood, children, education, literature, poetry, reading, Xavier Donnelly

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Ten is the new 21

May 11, 2015 by Alexia Raynal

Perceptions about childhood and innocence tend to go hand in hand. People generally believe that young children are innocent and deserving of a worry-free childhood. Unfortunately, children in racialized groups might stop benefitting from such convenient assumptions way earlier in life than children in more racially advantaged groups. Dr. Goff from the University of California in Los Angeles interviewed police officers about their perceptions of children in different racial and age groups. While this could be one more in a well-known series of studies, it […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: black children, childhood, children

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Longing for a past that never was

April 27, 2015 by Alexia Raynal

Pauline Hunt and Ronald Frankenberg wrote an academic analysis about Disneyland titled “It’s a Small World” several decades ago, before Disneyland became the multibillion dollar company it is now. Today, their analysis is still on target. The authors’ reflections on their own experience visiting Disneyland (as a couple) in the nineties illustrate a sense of “infinite nostalgia” that today’s visitors might also experience. In Disneyland, they write insofar as the visitor suspends adult disbelief, the world is her or his oyster . . . A deep nostalgia […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, Disneyland, Pauline Hunt, Ronald Frankenberg

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