#  Robin Bernstein Quoted in the New York Times 

 





July 27, 2020

 

 

 WGS professor [Robin Bernstein](/people/robin-bernstein) was recently quote in a *New York Times* article, “[The Magic of Black Girls’ Play](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/parenting/black-girls-play.html)" by Kyra Gaunt. In the article, Gaunt quotes Professor Bernstein on the the history of children’s play enacting violence against black bodies.

 Bernstein's book *[Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights](https://nyupress.org/9780814787083/racial-innocence/)* won five awards: the [Outstanding Book Award](http://www.athe.org/?page=Outstanding_Book) from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE, co-winner), the [Grace Abbott Best Book Award](http://shcyhome.org/2013/06/2013-grace-abbott-best-book-award-winner-robin-bernstein/) from the Society for the History of Children and Youth, the [Book Award](http://www.childlitassn.org/book-award) from the Children's Literature Association, the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize from the [New England American Studies Association,](http://www.neasa.org/) and the [IRSCL Award](http://www.irscl.com/award.html) from the International Research Society for Children's Literature.

 Interested to learn more? Read the full New York Times article [here](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/parenting/black-girls-play.html).



 

 

 



 

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