Laura Soderberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 5685045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Soderberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Soderberg |
| SIGNATURE | SODERBERG L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Data-Driven Childhoods
The turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century marked a time of intensified data collection in the United States focused especially on childhood. This article explores how two children’s narratives, Francis La Flesche’s The Middle Five (1900) and Francis Rolt-Wheeler’s The Boy with the U.S. Census (1911), reflect and respond to this conjunction of boyhood, settler colonialism, and official surveillance. Read together, these texts provide a…
Race and the Power of Popular Census Reading in the Nineteenth Century
This essay examines the challenge that census data represented to the Black press as both critical information and intrusive surveillance of minoritized people. Studying the United States Census in the nineteenth century as a history of popular reading reveals that census reading—either in the form of reading the census directly or reading about the census in the periodical press—provided its own form of nationalism, but it could be one based on …
One More Time with Feeling
The publication history of Clotel, which was rewritten and rereleased three times in twenty-five years, puts considerable strain on conventional readings of sentimental activism’s focus on the exceptional individual and private resolution. In the patterns of repetition and transformation that emerge from Brown’s self-duplication, I therefore argue that Clotel and its successors provide a new historiography of systemic trauma that is highly releva…
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One More Time with Feeling
The publication history of Clotel, which was rewritten and rereleased three times in twenty-five years, puts considerable strain on conventional readings of sentimental activism’s focus on the exceptional individual and private resolution. In the patterns of repetition and transformation that emerge from Brown’s self-duplication, I therefore argue that Clotel and its successors provide a new historiography of systemic trauma that is highly releva…
Race and the Power of Popular Census Reading in the Nineteenth Century
This essay examines the challenge that census data represented to the Black press as both critical information and intrusive surveillance of minoritized people. Studying the United States Census in the nineteenth century as a history of popular reading reveals that census reading—either in the form of reading the census directly or reading about the census in the periodical press—provided its own form of nationalism, but it could be one based on …
Data-Driven Childhoods
The turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century marked a time of intensified data collection in the United States focused especially on childhood. This article explores how two children’s narratives, Francis La Flesche’s The Middle Five (1900) and Francis Rolt-Wheeler’s The Boy with the U.S. Census (1911), reflect and respond to this conjunction of boyhood, settler colonialism, and official surveillance. Read together, these texts provide a…
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