Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index.
Contents
"Hey, Who's the Kid with the Green Umbrella?": a Re-evaluation of Little Black Sambo and the Black-a-moor -- From Ten Little Niggers to Afro-Bets: Images of Blackness in Picture Books for Young Readers, 1870s to 2000s -- The Influence of the Black Arts Movement on African American Children's Picture Books -- Pushing the Boundaries: The Coretta Scott King Award Picture Books -- From Margin to Center: African American Artistic Legacies Shaping the Genre -- Historical America through the Eyes of the Black Child -- "Just Build Me a Cabin the Corner of Glory Land": Depictions of Heaven in African American Children's Picture Books -- "Ain't I Fine?": Black Modes of Discourse in Contemporary African American Children's Picture Books -- "Why Are We Reading This Stuff?": A Pedagogy of Teaching African American Children's Picture Books.
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