1st Edition
Fictions of Integration American Children's Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education
By Naomi Lesley
Copyright 2017
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines how children’s and young adult literature addresses and interrogates the legacies of American school desegregation. Such literature narrates not only the famous battles to implement desegregation in the South, in places like Little Rock, Arkansas, but also more insidious and less visible legacies, such as re-segregation within schools through the mechanism of disability... Read more
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mirrors, Windows, and Unspeakable Conversations
Chapter One: Scripting History and the Genre of Desegregation Stories
Chapter Two: Counternarratives and the Persistence of White Privilege
Chapter Three: Pedagogies of Desegregation: Narratives of Disability and Giftedness
Chapter Four: Desegregating Literacy Skills in the Era of Accountability
Conclusion: Schooling and Resistance
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Naomi Lesley is Assistant Professor at Holyoke Community College, USA.
