Diversity in Youth Literature: Opening Doors through Reading
edited by Jamie Campbell Naidoo and Sarah Park
American Library Association, 2013
Paper: 978-0-8389-1143-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8389-9621-8 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification PS153.M56D58 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9920693
TOC
Contents
Acknowledgments
Editors’ Introduction
Part I: Overview of Diversity in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Chapter 1: Voices of Experience
Chapter 2: Opening Doors to Understanding
Part II: Exploring Marginalized, Oppressed, and Under/Misrepresented Communities in Youth Literature
Chapter 3: African American Children’s Literature
Chapter 4: Promising Portals and Safe Passages
Chapter 5: Beyond Sari, Hindu Monkey God, and Divali
Chapter 6: “That’s So Chamorro”
Chapter 7: Growing Mixed/Up
Chapter 8: The Door Has Never Opened for Us
Chapter 9: Building a Core Collection
Chapter 10: Holding Out Hope
Chapter 11: How to Evaluate Children’s and Young Adult Books about Transracial and Transnational Asian Adoption
Chapter 12: Representation in Queer Children’s Books
Chapter 13: Rediscover ing Filipino Children’s Literature
Further Reading
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
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