African and African American Children's and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom: A Critical Guide (Hardcover, 2)

Contents: Vivian Yenika-Agbaw/Mary Napoli: Introduction. Domestic and International Multiculturalism: Children’s Literature about Africans and African Americans ? Ruth McKoy Lowery: Fathers Know Best: Traditional Families in Recently Published African American Children’s Literature for the Early Grades ? Mary Napoli: Powerful Words: Celebrating Poetry with Young Children ? Janet Helmberger: Representing Cultural Identity in Children’s Literature: Black Children in Their Communities ? Patricia Crawford: Spirituality and Young Children: Literature as a Support for Resilience and Coping ? April Whatley Bedford/Renee Casbergue: Sharing Culturally Relevant Literature with Preschool Children and Their Families ? Shanetia Clark/Kimetta Hairston: ≪I Want My Mama!≫: Young Black Adolescents Reading through the Grief ? Rachel Grant: African American Female Literacies and the Role of Double Dutch in the Lives and Literature for Black Girls ? Ann Berger-Knorr: Discrimination and Preadolescence: Two Readers’ Constructions ? Linda T. Parsons/Michele D. Castleman: Daring to Dream: Characters in Coretta Scott King Author Award-Winning Books and Their Pursuits of the American Dream ? Barbara Marinak: Representing Black Experiences: Engaging Hearts and Minds with Excellent Nonfiction Literature ? Lewis Asimeng-Boahene: Riddles as Critical Thinking Tools: A Case of African Traditional Oral Literature in the Social Studies Classroom ? Denise Jarrett: Reading ≪Black≫ Poverty in Postcolonial Anglophone Caribbean Young Adult Fiction: Michael Anthony’s The Year in San Fernando and Cyril Everard Palmer’s The Cloud with the Silver Lining ? Corinna Crafton: Alternative Families in Young Adult Novels: Disrupting the Status Quo ? Vivian Yenika-Agbaw: Disability in Africana Adolescent Literature ? Lauren Lewis: Lessons on Discrimination: Historical Fiction and the Culture of Struggle ? Barbara A. Ward/Deanna Day: Keeping Hope Alive: Reading and Discussing Adolescent Novels and Modern-Day Miracles ? Tamara Lindsey: The Exoticizing of African American Children and of Children of Color: Care Work and Critical Literacy ? Mary Napoli/Vivian Yenika-Agbaw: Afterword. Global Literacy: Implications for the Classroom.