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HIST 3320: The History of Childhood

An OER for Prof. Swapna Banerjee

Unit 14: Readings and Assignments

Week 14: The World of non-kin and Traveling Caregivers

Tuesday, Nov. 26th:

  • Visit the Exhibition Transcolonial Journeys of Indian and Chinese Caregivers

https://www.transcolonialjourneys.com/exhibition

  • Swapna Banerjee, “Blurring boundaries, Distant companions: Non-kin Female Caregivers for Children in Colonial India (Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries). Paedagogica Historica 2010;46(6): 775-88. doi: 10.1080/00309230.2010.526345. PMID: 21280398.
  • Film Roma (2018). Director Alfonso Cuarón

https://www.netflix.com/title/80240715

Recommended:

  • Satya Shikha Chakraborty, “Mammies, Ayahs, Baboes: Postcards of Racialized Nursemaids from the early Twentieth Centuries,” Visual Culture and Gender, Vol. 13, 2018.

https://vcg.emitto.net/index.php/vcg/article/view/111

  • Swapna Banerjee, “Down Memory Lane: Representations of Domestic Workers in Middle-Class Personal Narratives of Colonial Bengal,” Journal of Social History, 2004, 37(3): 681-708

Thursday, Nov. 28th: Thanksgiving

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