Title Age in America : the colonial era to the present / edited by Corinne T. Field and Nicholas L. Syrett

Published New York : New York University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Part I. Age in early America -- Part II. Age in the long nineteenth century -- Part III. Age in modern America Summary "Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our lives--precise moments when our rights and opportunities change--when we become eligible to cast a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare. This volume brings together scholars of childhood, adulthood, and old age to explore how and why particular ages have come to define the rights and obligations of American citizens. Since the founding of the nation, Americans have relied on chronological age to determine matters as diverse as who can marry, work, be enslaved, drive a car, or qualify for a pension. Contributors to this volume explore what meanings people in the past ascribed to specific ages and whether or not earlier Americans believed the same things about particular ages as we do. The means by which Americans imposed chronological boundaries upon the variable process of growing up and growing old offers a paradigmatic example of how people construct cultural meaning and social hierarchy from embodied experience. Further, chronological age always intersects with other socially constructed categories such as gender, race, and sexuality. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, taking up a variety of distinct subcultures--from frontier children and antebellum slaves to twentieth-century Latinas--Age in America makes a powerful case that age has always been a key index of citizenship"--Publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Age -- Social aspects -- United States -- History Age -- Political aspects -- United States -- History Age groups -- United States -- History Social classes -- United States -- History Identity (Psychology) -- United States -- History Coming of age -- Social aspects -- United States -- History Aging -- Social aspects -- United States -- History Citizenship -- United States -- History Political culture -- United States -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Age groups Age -- Political aspects Aging -- Social aspects Citizenship Identity (Psychology) Political culture Social classes Social conditions United States -- Social conditions. United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Field, Corinne T., 1965- editor Syrett, Nicholas L., editor. ISBN 9781479806836 1479806838 9781479840595 1479840599

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