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Fictions of Integration - American Children's Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education (Paperback)
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Fictions of Integration - American Children's Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education (Paperback)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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This book examines how children's and young adult literature
addresses and interrogates the legacies of American school
desegregation. Such literature narrates not only the famous battles
to implement desegregation in the South, in places like Little
Rock, Arkansas, but also more insidious and less visible legacies,
such as re-segregation within schools through the mechanism of
disability diagnosis. Novelizations of children's experiences with
school desegregation comment upon the politics of getting
African-American children access to white schools; but more than
this, as school stories, they also comment upon how structural
racism operates in the classroom and mutates, over the course of
decades, through the pedagogical practices depicted in literature
for young readers. Lesley combines approaches from critical race
theory, disability studies, and educational philosophy in order to
investigate how the educational market simultaneously constrains
how racism in schools can be presented to young readers and also
provides channels for radical critiques of pedagogy and visions of
alternative systems. The volume examines a range of titles, from
novels that directly engage the Brown v. Board of Education
decision, such as Sharon Draper's Fire From the Rock and Dorothy
Sterling's Mary Jane, to novels that engage less obvious legacies
of desegregation, such as Cynthia Voigt's Dicey's Song, Sharon
Flake's Pinned, Virginia Hamilton's The Planet of Junior Brown, and
Louis Sachar's Holes. This book will be of interest to scholars of
American studies, children's literature, and educational philosophy
and history.
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