1st Edition
Brown Gold Milestones of African American Children's Picture Books, 1845-2002
By Michelle Martin
Copyright 2004
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's books about black life were hard to find — if, indeed, young black readers and their parents could even gain entry into the bookstores and libraries. But today, in the "Golden Age" of African-American... Read more
Chapter 1: "Hey, Who's the Kid with the Green Umbrella?": Re-evaluating the Black-a-Moor and Little Black Sambo
Chapter 2: Children's Picture Books and the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 3: Three Decades of Strong Women: the Coretta Scott King Awards
Chapter 4: From Margin to Center: African-American Illustrators at Work
Chapter 5: Historical America through the Eyes of the Black Child
Chapter 6: "Everybody Say Amen": Signifying and Postmodern African-American Picture Books
Chapter 7: "Just Build me a Cabin in the Corner of Glory Land": Bridges to Heaven in African-American Picturebooks
Chapter 8: "They stole my Name": Historical Fiction and the Slave Narrative
Chapter 2: Children's Picture Books and the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 3: Three Decades of Strong Women: the Coretta Scott King Awards
Chapter 4: From Margin to Center: African-American Illustrators at Work
Chapter 5: Historical America through the Eyes of the Black Child
Chapter 6: "Everybody Say Amen": Signifying and Postmodern African-American Picture Books
Chapter 7: "Just Build me a Cabin in the Corner of Glory Land": Bridges to Heaven in African-American Picturebooks
Chapter 8: "They stole my Name": Historical Fiction and the Slave Narrative
Biography
Michelle H. Martin is Assistant Professor of English at Clemson University. She is coeditor of Sexual Pedagogies: Sex Education in Britain, Australia, and America, 1879-2000.
