Brown gold : milestones of African American children's picture books, 1845-2002 / / by Michelle H. Martin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450445203321
• Autore: Martin Michelle H. <1966-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-135-94915-8; 0-203-60330-3; 1-280-07732-8; 0-203-49471-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Collana: Children's literature and culture ; ; 32
• Disciplina: 810.9/9282/08996073; 810.9928208996073
• Soggetti: American literature - African American authors - History and criticism; American literature - African American authors; Children's literature, American - History and criticism; Children's literature, American; Picture books for children - United States; African Americans in literature; African Americans in art; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-221) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; History of African-American Children's Picture Books; ~Hey, Who's the Kid with the Green Umbrella?~: A Reevaluation of Little Black Sambo and the Black-a-moor; From Ten Little Niggers to Afro-Bets: Images of Blackness in Picture Books for Young Readers, 1870s to 2000s; The Influence of the Black Arts Movement on African-American Children's Picture Books; The Professional Evolution of African-American Children's Picture Books; Pushing the Boundaries: The Coretta Scott King Award Picture Books; From Margin to Center: African-American Artistic Legacies Shaping the GenreCriticism and Pedagogy of African-American Children's Picture ; Books; Historical America through the Eyes of the Black Child; ~Just Build Me a Cabin in the Corner of Glory Land~: Depictions of Heaven in African-American Children's Picture Books; ~Ain't I Fine!~: Black Modes of Discourse in Contemporary African-American Children's Picture Books; ~Why Are We Reading This Stuff?~: A Pedagogy of Teaching African-American Children's Picture Books; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's books about black life were hard to find - if, indeed, young black readers and their parents could even gain entry into the bookstores and libraries. But today, in the ""Golden Age"" of African-American children's picturebooks, one can find a wealth of titles ranging from Happy to be Nappy to Black is Brown is Tan. In this book, Michelle Martin explores how the genre has evolved