Nara Milanich: “Even if It Doesn’t Look Like It, the History of Childhood Is Very Political”

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Professor of Latin American history at Barnard College at Columbia University, Nara Milanich (Gainesville, Florida, 52) teaches her students that “everything has a history, even children.” And she does so from her own experience, which she had researched in Chile for long periods, work that resulted in a book originally published in 2009, but that only a few months ago she looked up in Spanish: Children of chance. Childhood, class and State in C…