This book includes the latest in research and issues related to multicultural literature for children. The materials noted in the book are both authentic and non-stereotyped. The book helps adults evaluate literature to determine authenticity and an understanding of the various cultures.
This collection of original essays concentrates on the meaning of cultural aesthetics in children's and adolescent literature. Contributors discuss such subjects as stereotypic representations of American cultures and issues of literary inclusion.
This collection of essays critically examines the depiction of ethnic minorities in American children's literature. Contributors focus on such ethnic minorities as Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Asian Pacific Americans.
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.