Title:
Embracing, evaluating, and examining African American children's and young adult literature
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Wanda M. Brooks, Jonda C. McNair ; foreword by Rudine Sims Bishop.
Publication Information:
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.
Physical Description:
x, 251 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780810860278
Abstract:
Scholarly studies about the use of books by and about African-American children and young adults in classrooms across the United States.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Term:
Contents:
A comparative analysis of The Brownies' book and contemporary African American children's literature written by Patricia C. McKissack / Jonda C. McNair -- "The random brushing of birds" : representations of African American women in biographies / Elizabeth Marshall -- Following tradition : young adult literature as neo-slave narrative / KaaVonia Hinton -- Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, and the roots of African American children's literature / Michelle H. Martin -- A triumphant mulatto : racial construction in Mildred Taylor's The land / Gregory J. Hampton -- Historical fiction and cultural evocations in a community-based literary club / Susan Browne and Wanda M. Brooks -- My boys and my books : engaging African American young men in emancipatory reading / Kimberly N. Parker -- Reader responses to African American children's literature : a sociolinguistic perspective / Nina L. Nilsson -- Reading our richly diverse world : conceptualizing a response development zone / Karla J. Möller -- African American children's literature in rural schools / Patricia E. Bandré -- Where life and children's literature meet : African American males in the elementary grades / Doris Walker-Dalhouse -- Fences, physical and proverbial : pre-service teachers' engagement with The other side by Jacqueline Woodson / Peggy S. Rice.