Américas Award

Honoring Latino/a Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the Americas

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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First awarded in 1993, the Américas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean or the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural-international boundaries, focusing instead upon cultural heritages within the hemisphere. The Award is unique in that selects Latino/a youth literature for classroom use and in that it focuses on the entire Western Hemisphere. Scholars from the fields of literature, education, lbrary science, and theater engage with Latino/a Critical Race Theory (LatCrit) in this ecollection of essays about the Américas Award, the Award-winning and honored books, and the contexts in which the books are used. This collection offers essays on the history of the award, close readings of Award-winning and honored books situated in the classroom, and discussions of how best to use the books in the classroom, library and theater.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-12-16
Mått160 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt458 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieChildren and Youth in Popular Culture
Antal sidor228
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498501606

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Chapter 1: The Américas Award: Latino/a Youth Literature for the K-12 ClassroomLaretta HendersonChapter 2: Why does Latino/a Youth Literature Matter? How Children and Young Adults Learn about RaceErin WinklerChapter 3: Envisioning Tomorrow: The Musings of Julie Kline on the History and Future of the Américas Award Ruth Quiroa Chapter 4: Educating for Global Competence through the Américas AwardDenise Woltering VargasChapter 5: The Américas Award, Cultural Competence, and the Politics of Publishing Jamie NaidooChapter 6: Book Awards, Social Responsibility and Cultural ContextualizationLaretta HendersonChapter 7: The Américas Award Books in Early Childhood Education: Reconceptualizing the Conversation about Diversity with Pre-service TeachersLeanne EvansChapter 8: Cultural and Social Justice Issues in the Américas Award Winning Poetry AnthologiesVivian Yenika-AgbawChapter 9: Borders, Home, Spirituality, and Language: Sociopolitical Themes in Latino/a Children's Literature 1990-2015Patricia Enciso and Carmen L. MedinaChapter 10: Border Crossing: Immigration in the Américas Award Winning BooksRuth McKoy LoweryChapter 11: The Américas Award on Screen: Promoting Critical Engagement with Literature via Multimodal CompositionCandance M. Doerr-StevensChapter 12: The Américas Award on Stage: A Call for More Latino Youth TheaterRoxanne Schroeder-ArceChapter 13: Translation and Transformation: The Status of Américas Award Books Translation in East AsiaWooseob JeongChapter 14: Public Library Service to Latino/a CommunitiesColleen E. MarshIndexAbout the Contributors

Containing essays from a range of critical viewpoints and perspectives on Latino/a children’s and young adult literature of the Americas, The Américas Award is...intellectually stimulating in ways that surpass the limited confines of its specialty subject matter.... By pulling together many disparate strands within this contentious field, the collection provides a timely and astute critique of the crisis of acculturation affecting American children’s literature today and its potentially devastating implications for multicultural awareness and harmony.... This volume, therefore, successfully shows the relevance of Latino/a literature not only as an important genre in its own right, but also as a lens through which to view the problems of race and culture that pervade American society, and as an example of the ways in which the children’s literature genre functions as a tool of acculturation and division.... The Américas Award: Honoring Latino/a Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the Americas provides an inspirational range of perspectives on the difficult question of multiculturalism for children.