Brings together scholars and practitioners to present an ethnic studies framework for studying and teaching youth literature.
For decades, youth literature has been reckoning with its role in systemic racism and oppression. In this landmark edited volume, Marilisa Jiménez Garcķa and Sonia Alejandra Rodrķguez assemble a cadre of well-known women of color scholars and practitioners to make a case for ethnic studies as a path for pursuing racial justice in the field. Ethnic studies, they argue, demands that we go beyond seeing race, ethnicity, culture, and diversity as questions of identity and difference. Instead, it shows us how marginalized positionalities create epistemologies that shape our understanding of age, craft, genre, and knowledge production. Multidisciplinary and intersectional in its approach, Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature analyzes US imperialism through the lens of youth literature and vice versa, shedding light on the roots of our current culture wars and curriculum battles.
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"Jiménez Garcķa, Rodrķguez, and their contributors take the field of youth literature to task, pointing out the ways it has been complicit in perpetuating systemic oppression and white supremacy. While scholars of children's and young adult literature will certainly benefit from the volume, the editors also take care to introduce youth literature to scholars in ethnic studies." Isabel Millįn, author of Coloring into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children's Literature
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Brings together scholars and practitioners to present an ethnic studies framework for studying and teaching youth literature.
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Walking Between the Lines
Marilisa Jiménez Garcķa and Sonia Alejandra Rodrķguez
Opening Poem: My Curriculum
Alissa Alina Flores
Section 1: Youth as Intellectuals and Storytellers
1. Out of Empire's Shadow: Confronting US Imperialism through Randy Ribay's
The Patron Saints of Nothing
Lara Saguisag
2. Becoming a Girl: Girlhood, Child Marriage, and Widowhood in Kashmira
Sheth's Keeping Corner
Blessy Sharon Samjose
3. "Let Me Tell You a Story": Healing, Environmental Justice, and Resistance
in Mark Oshiro's Each of Us a Desert
Sonia Alejandra Rodrķguez
Section 2: Intersectionality and Counternarratives
4. Representations of Asian American Girlhood in Contemporary Young Adult
Literature
Jung E. Kim
5. In the Spirit: Womanist Notions of Blackness, Indigeneity, Gender, and
Dis/ability in Children's Literature
Reanae McNeal
6. The Power of Story, Images, and Policy in Native Studies: An Interview
with Traci Sorell and Alia Jones
Marilisa Jiménez Garcķa and Sonia Alejandra Rodrķguez
Section 3: Community Frameworks
7. African American Children's Literature: The First 100 Years (reprint)
Violet J. Harris
8. Critical Indigenous Literacies: Selecting and Using Children's Books about
Indigenous Peoples (reprint)
Debbie Reese
9. The Mirror, the Matrix, the Movement: Intellectual Legacies of the Council
on Interracial Books for Children
Marilisa Jiménez Garcķa
Coda: Reflections on Struggle, Freedom, and Storytelling
Marilisa Jiménez Garcķa and Sonia Alejandra Rodrķguez
List of Contributors
Index
Marilisa Jiménez Garcķa is Associate Professor of Children's and Young Adult Literary Cultures at Rutgers University-Camden, Department of Childhood Studies. She is the author of Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture, which won the Children's Literature Association Book Prize for monographs. Sonia Alejandra Rodrķguez is Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY). They coedit the journal Research on Diversity in Youth Literature.
