ENG 251: Children's Literature

Includes relevant chapter: "A Case for Heavy Editing: The Example of Race and Children's Literature in the Gilded Age"

Includes relevant chapter: "'The Old Child and the Young One': The Infantilization of Male Slaves in 1820s Juvenile Literature"

Looking Forward, Looking Back examines today's representation of Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe to America around the turn of the last century. It explores the collective story that emerges when American authors look back at this exodus from an Eastern European home to a new one to be established in America. This book focuses on children's literature.

Kate Capshaw Smith explores the Harlem Renaissance's vigorous exchange about the nature and identity of black childhood and uncovers the networks of African American philosophers, community activists, schoolteachers, and literary artists who worked together to transmit black history and culture to the next generation. Smith wrote this volume as part of the Blacks in the Diaspora series.

Black History in the Pages of Children's Literature presents a narrative timeline of Black history. Each book chapter provides an introduction to one historical period as well as an annotated bibliography of children's literature depicting African Americans of that period.

Includes relevant chapter: "The Power of Black and White: African Americans in Late-Nineteenth-Century Children's Periodicals"