Embracing, Evaluating, and Examining African American Children's and Young Adult Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embracing, Evaluating, and Examining African American Children's and Young Adult Literature write by Wanda M. Brooks. This book was released on 2008. Embracing, Evaluating, and Examining African American Children's and Young Adult Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholarly studies about the use of books by and about African-American children and young adults in classrooms across the United States.
Racism in Contemporary African American Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Racism in Contemporary African American Children’s and Young Adult Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Racism in Contemporary African American Children’s and Young Adult Literature write by Suriyan Panlay. This book was released on 2016-10-25. Racism in Contemporary African American Children’s and Young Adult Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children’s and young adult literature, this book explores one key racial issue that has been overlooked both in race studies and literary scholarship—internalised racism. By systematically examining the issue of internalised racism and its detrimental psychological effects, particularly towards the young and vulnerable, this book defamiliarises the very racial issue that otherwise has become normalised in American racial discourse, reaffirming the relevance of race, racism, and racialisation in contemporary America. Through readings of works by Jacqueline Woodson, Sharon G. Flake, Tanita S. Davis, Sapphire, Rosa Guy, and Nikki Grimes, Suriyan Panlay develops a new critical discourse on internalised racism by studying its effects on marginalised children, its manifestations, and the fictional narrative strategies that can be used to regain and reclaim a sense of self.
Was the Cat in the Hat Black?
Was the Cat in the Hat Black? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Was the Cat in the Hat Black? write by Philip Nel. This book was released on 2017-07-06. Was the Cat in the Hat Black? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is structural: it's embedded in culture and in institutions. One of the places that racism hides-and thus perhaps the best place to oppose it-is books for young people. Was the Cat in the Hat Black? presents five serious critiques of the history and current state of children's literature tempestuous relationship with both implicit and explicit forms of racism. The book fearlessly examines topics both vivid-such as The Cat in the Hat's roots in blackface minstrelsy-and more opaque, like how the children's book industry can perpetuate structural racism via whitewashed covers even while making efforts to increase diversity. Rooted in research yet written with a lively, crackling touch, Nel delves into years of literary criticism and recent sociological data in order to show a better way forward. Though much of what is proposed here could be endlessly argued, the knowledge that what we learn in childhood imparts both subtle and explicit lessons about whose lives matter is not debatable. The text concludes with a short and stark proposal of actions everyone-reader, author, publisher, scholar, citizen- can take to fight the biases and prejudices that infect children's literature. While Was the Cat in the Hat Black? does not assume it has all the answers to such a deeply systemic problem, its audacity should stimulate discussion and activism.
If I Ran the Zoo
If I Ran the Zoo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook If I Ran the Zoo write by Dr. Seuss. This book was released on 1950. If I Ran the Zoo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gerald tells of the very unusual animals he would add to the zoo, if he were in charge.
Just Us Girls
Just Us Girls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Us Girls write by Wendy Rountree. This book was released on 2008. Just Us Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just Us Girls: The Contemporary African American Young Adult Novel is a welcome addition to the literary criticism in a field that deserves more critical study - African American children's and young adult literature. This book is a close-reading textual study of major issues and themes in contemporary (i.e., post-Civil Rights era) young adult novels written by both well-known and lesser-known African American women writers, written primarily from an African American perspective and primarily, but not exclusively, for an African American female audience. Representative works by Candy Dawson Boyd, Rita Williams-Garcia, Deborah Gregory, Rosa Guy, Virginia Hamilton, Mildred Pitts Walter, and Jacqueline Woodson are analyzed. Each chapter investigates cultural, social, and/or psychological issues examined by the writers that are prevalent in the actual lives of African American girls.
