Once upon a time in a different world : issues and ideas in African American children's literature / Neal A. Lester.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lester, Neal A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2007]
Series:Children's literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • (Un)happily ever after : fairy tale morals, moralities, and heterosexism in children's texts
  • "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" : readin', writin', and parental (il)literacy in African American children's books
  • "Sticks and stones may break my bones" : airbrushing the ugliest of ugly in African American children's books
  • Nappy edges and goldy locks : African American daughters and the politics of hair
  • Roots that go beyond big hair and a bad hair day : Nappy hair pieces
  • Don't condemn White teacher over Nappy hair (an editorial)
  • Angels of color : divinely inspired or socially constructed?
  • "Do you see what I see? do you hear what I hear?" : becoming better adults through Toni Morrison's The big box and The book of mean people
  • Reviews of Anne Schraff's Lost and found
  • Reviews of Anne Schraff's A matter of trust
  • Reviews of Anne Schraff's Until we meet again
  • Reviews of Eliza A. Comodromos's Teacher's guide to the Bluford Series
  • Review of Walter Dean Myer's The beast
  • Reviews of Angela Johnson's The first last part
  • Reviews of Kelly McWilliams's Doormat
  • Response to "Dialoging reviews" : parents, it's 10:00
  • do you know what your children are reading? / James Blasingame, Jr.
  • Unlocking the beauty of hair : a review of Joyce Carol Thomas's Crowning glory
  • Nappy happy : a review of bell hooks's Happy to be nappy
  • "Shake it to the one that you love the best" : a review of Juba this & juba that
  • Response to "Extending discourses" / Elizabeth McNeil.