Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction : Children in society, culture, and the world—1. Immigration and education in the United States—2. The IQ : a cultural and historical framework—3. Creating new identities : youth and ethnicity in New York City high schools in the 1930s and 1940s—4. Making and remaking an event : the Leopold and Loeb case in American culture—5. A sign of family disorder? : changing representations of parental kidnapping—6. Bringing it home : children, technology, and family in the post-World War II world—7. Children and globalization—8. Children in global migrations—9. Children of a new world.

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