Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-294) and index
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Introduction : Playing innocent: childhood, race, performance -- 1. Tender angels, insensate pickaninnies : the divergent paths of racial innocence -- 2. Scriptive things -- 3. Everyone is impressed : slavery as a tender embrace from Uncle Tom's to Uncle Remus's cabin -- 4. The black-and-whiteness of Raggedy Ann -- 5. The scripts of Black dolls