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The Present Past: Black Authors and the Anti-Black Selective Tradition in Children's Literature.

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Title: The Present Past: Black Authors and the Anti-Black Selective Tradition in Children's Literature.
Authors: GARDNER, ROBERTA PRICE1 rgardn21@kennesaw.edu
Source: Journal of Children's Literature. Fall2020, Vol. 46 Issue 2, p8-18. 12p.
Subject Terms: *Children's literature, *Canon (Literature), *African American children, *Young adult literature, African American literature, Food sovereignty, African American youth
Abstract: The article discusses the author suggests educators engage students in critical racial literacy practices to counter the anti-Black selective tradition in publishing systemically limits the #OwnVoices of Black authors. Topics include the publishing industry responds to calls for diverse books by increasing representations of Black characters in plain sight; and BlackCrit confronts the of anti-Blackness as a social construction, as an embodied lived experience of social suffering.
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Abstract:The article discusses the author suggests educators engage students in critical racial literacy practices to counter the anti-Black selective tradition in publishing systemically limits the #OwnVoices of Black authors. Topics include the publishing industry responds to calls for diverse books by increasing representations of Black characters in plain sight; and BlackCrit confronts the of anti-Blackness as a social construction, as an embodied lived experience of social suffering.
ISSN:15217779