Was the Cat in the Hat black? the hidden racism of children's literature, and the need for diverse books
Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is structural: it's embedded in culture and in institutions. One of the places that racism hides -- and t...
| Main Author: | Nel, Philip, 1969- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Race, racism, and the cultures of childhood
- The strange career of The Cat in the Hat; or, Dr. Seuss's racial imagination
- How to read uncomfortably: Racism, affect, and classic children's books
- Whiteness, nostalgia, and fantastic flying books: William Joyce's racial erasures vs. Hurricane Katrina
- Don't judge a book by its color: The destructive fantasy of whitewashing (and vice-versa)
- Childhoods "outside the boundaries of imagination": Genre is the new Jim Crow
- Conclusion: A manifesto for anti-racist children's literature.