Playing with History
eBook - ePub

Playing with History

American Identities and Children’s Consumer Culture

  1. 228 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Playing with History

American Identities and Children’s Consumer Culture

About this book

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.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Made in America: The Rise of the American Toy Industry
  8. 2. Dolling Up History: 1930s Antique Dolls and the Clark Doll Study
  9. 3. “Gosh, It’s Exciting to Be an American”: The “Orange” and Landmark History Books during the Cold War
  10. 4. Family Fun for Everyone?: Freedomland U.S.A., 1960–1964
  11. 5. Selling Multicultural Girlhood: The American Girl Doll, 1986 to Present
  12. Conclusion
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. Notes
  15. Index
  16. About the Author