Age in America SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American Studies and the privileging of English

and the privileging of English language publishing over indigenous languages

with concomitant sub-texts relating to gender roles and sexuality

“Can you lend me the skin-colored pencil

Reading the archive of violence and trauma against the grain

and other prominent scholars

Age in America SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American Studies and the privileging of EnglishEighteen. Twenty one. Sixty five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our livesprecise moments when our rights and opportunities changewhen we become eligible to cast a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare. This volume brings together scholars of childhood, adulthood, and old age to explore how and why particular ages have come to define the rights and obligations of American citizens. Since the founding of the