Bianca’s Reviews > Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State > Status Update

“That’s the problem. We all know that story—and the one about the Mormon girl in Utah and the one about the little girl in Spain—and because we do, we all run those tapes in our heads when we think of leaving our kids on their own. We even run a tape of how we’d look on Larry King.”

The US military created these foreign sex economies

Rainbow Rowell cameo?!

"As African American youth, they so commonly appeared in press coverage as “street hustlers” who had outgrown childhood or had never enjoyed its protections. As Robin Bernstein and others have shown, the designations of “childhood” and “innocence” (and their associated perquisites) have historically been withheld from youth of color."

The overinflated statistics stated by parents, the opportunists, and the media in the 80s are unhinged but it is fascinating to see the overlap of the moral panic timeline with the achievements/failures of the women and gay rights movements.