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Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture by Eric Gardner (review)

had paved the way for empowering child consumers, these very periodicals found themselves less influential when forced to “compete with less didactic forms of entertainment” such as Lincoln Logs and Raggedy Ann, which catered explicitly to children’s desire to play (175). In a dynamic that modern parents might recognize, parental handwringing often functioned as a backdrop—rather than an obstacle—to children’s pleasure. Commercializing Childhood, like many great histories, tells a story that seems quite familiar even as it covers largely uncultivated scholarly ground. It will prove immensely useful for scholars of children’s culture, particularly for those interested in tracing how consumer capitalism has helped to shape conceptions of the very child Americans seem so worried about being corrupted by the marketplace.