Multicultural and Ethnic Children&#039;s Literature in the United States

Donna L. Gilton

doi:10.5771/9781461669760

Summary

This book describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children's literature in the U.S., as well as related materials published elsewhere. It relates in great detail the people, businesses, organizations, and institutions that create, disseminate, promote, critique, and collect these materials. Author Donna Gilton gives a detailed history of U.S. multicultural and ethnic children's literature throughout several historic periods, relating these developments to general social and political U.S. history.

Chapters illustrate characteristics of U.S. multicultural children's books, the major issues in the field, and multicultural initiatives and mainstream responses, while also providing outlines of research possibilities in the field and suggesting other groups of people who should be emphasized more in the future. In doing all this, Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United States brings together valuable and scattered information for the busy and involved librarians, teachers, parents, publishers, distributors, and community leaders who wish to use and promote this material with children.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2007
Copyright year: 2007
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-5672-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-6976-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 236
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. The Purpose of This Work No access
2. Terms and Definitions No access
3. How People Pass on Their Cultures No access
4. Why This Matters No access
5. Issues Affecting Ethnic Groups from All Continents No access
6. Four Ways to Look at Race Relations No access
1. Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature: Another Rose from Concrete? No access
2. Tales in and Out of School: Educational Histories No access
3. Looking in the Funhouse Mirror: Cultural Stereotypes No access
4. Pioneers, Precursors, and Prophets in the Wilderness: Ethnic Children's Literature before 1940 No access
5. Some Light on the Subject: 1940–1965 No access
6. The First Flowering: 1965–1980 No access
7. In the Desert: 1980–1985 No access
8. A Time to Build: 1985– No access
9. People Important to Multicultural Children's Literature No access
1. Mainstream Responses to Multiculturalism No access
2. More Specific Issues in Children's Literature No access
3. Loud, Proud, and Currying the Hot Sauce: A Multicultural Reaction to the Mainstream No access
4. What All Should Do No access
5. A Room with a View: What Should America Look Like and Be? No access
6. Characteristics of U.S. Multicultural Books No access
7. Multicultural and International Resources No access
1. Pan-African No access
2. Latino/a No access
3. Native American No access
4. Asian American No access
1. Emerging Groups No access
2. Emerging Issues and Conclusions No access
Bibliography No access Pages 179 - 214
Index No access Pages 215 - 234
About the Author No access Pages 235 - 236