TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Elizabeth Eckford's Appearance at Little Rock: The Possibility of Children's Political Agency
JO  - Politics
A1  - Nakata, Sana M.
SP  - 19
EP  - 25
VL  - 28
IS  - 1
N2  - In 1957, Hannah Arendt argued against the legally enforced desegregation of public schools in the American South. She argued that African Americans had mistaken schools and education for a site of political debate, when they properly belonged to a social realm instead. This article disagrees and reconsiders Arendt's separation between the social and political realms. Arendt also took exception to the role Elizabeth Eckford, a 15-year-old, played in this debate. It is argued here that Elizabeth Eckford's actions were deeply political and give rise to a need to consider the possibility of children's political agency.<p /> 
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SN  - 0263-3957
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9256.2007.00306.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -