Book Launch:

Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America

October 10, 5-7 PM
Thomson House
3650 McTavish
McGill University

The Department of English has invited Professor Amber Jamilla Musser (City University of New York) to engage in a dialogue with Assistant Professor Camille Owens.

Like Children (New York University Press, 2024) is a history of American childhood that rethinks black children’s excluded status, demonstrating instead white Americans’ possessive investment in black children's value and the violence of humanist inclusion.