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Voices of Resistance
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chican@ Children's Literature
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2017
Summary
The banning of Mexican-American Studies and censorship of Chican@-authored books in Arizona were part of a succession of anti-Mexican and anti-Chican@ policies that were enacted across the state and in the education system. The counterstories offered through these classes and literature not only created a sense of cultural inclusion, but ignited a political and activist consciousness among the mostly Chican@ youth, and reinvigorated conversations among educators about the teaching of race, ethnicity, and culture in the classroom, particularly through youth literature. While most work on youth literature has emphasized “multicultural” literature as a means of being inclusive, Voices of Resistance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chican@ Children’s Literature recognizes that our present moment--one that is rife with continued anti-Mexican sentiment but that has given rise to our first Chicano National Poet Laureate--demands a more focused study of children’s and young adult literature by and about Chican@s. This collection re-examines how we view multicultural and diversity literature and recognize literature that invites social transformation. Using multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives to critically examine a wide range of Chican@ children’s pictures book and young adult novels, this collection reaffirms Chicano@ children’s literature as a means to achieve equity and social change.
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Copyright year
2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-3403-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-3405-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
191
Product type
Edited Book
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Foreword No access
Introduction No access
1 Entre Tejana y Chicana: Tracing Proto-Chicana Identity and Consciousness in Tejana Young Adult Fiction and Poetry No access
2 Imagineering a New Mexican American Girl: Josefina Montoya (1824) No access
3 A Bone to Pick: Día de los Muertos in Children’s Literature No access
4 Águila: Personal Reflections on Reading Chicanx Picture Books from the Inside Out No access
5 A Portrait of the Artist as a Muchachito: Juan Felipe Herrera’s Downtown Boy as a Poetic Springboard into Critical Masculinity Studies No access
6 Not-So-Sweet Quince: Teenage Angst and Mother-Daughter Strife in Belinda Acosta’s Young Adult Novel, Damas, Dramas, and Ana Ruiz No access
7 “You Wanna Be a Chump/or a Champ?”: Constructions of Masculinity, Absent Fathers, and Conocimiento in Juan Felipe Herrera’s Downtown Boy No access
8 Representations of Sexual and Queer Identities in Chicana/o-Latina/o Children’s Literature No access
9 Chillante Pedagogy, “She Worlds,” and Testimonio as Text/Image: Toward a Chicana Feminist Pedagogy in the Works of Maya Christina Gonzalez No access
10 Was It All a Dream? Chicana/o Children and Mestiza Consciousness in Super Cilantro Girl (2003) and “Tata’s Gift” (2014) No access
11 Translanguaging con mi abuela: Chican@ Children’s Literature as a Means to Elevate Language Practices in Our Homes No access
12 Identity Texts in Linguistically and Culturally Sustaining Classrooms: Chican@ Children’s Literature, Student Voice, and Identity No access
