Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015

Karen Sands-O’Connor is Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo State, USA, and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Newcastle University, UK. She publishes widely on race, racism, and children’s literature, most notably in Soon Come Home to this Island: West Indians in British Children’s Literature (2008) and her edited collection with Marietta Frank, Internationalism in Children’s Series (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

• 1. Introduction: We’re Here Because You Were There – The Beginnings of Publishing for a Black British Audience.- 2. Postwar Education, Reading Schemes and Race: Leila Berg and Nippers.- 3. Britain, Black Empowerment and Bogle L’Ouverture: Independent Black Publishing of the 1960s-1980s.- 4. The Multicultural Education Movement, Anti-Racism and publishing for children, 1980-1995.- 5. New Models for Engagement: Independent Publishing After 1990.- 6. Stephen Lawrence, Institutional Racism and Mary Seacole in the National Curriculum.- 7. Prizes, Awards and Publishing for a Black British audience.- 8. Conclusion: We’re still here because you were there—so now what?.- Index.-

“Sands-O’Connor has made a brilliant contribution, and her study is bound to become a reference point for any further exploration into British publishing for a diverse market.” (Susanne Reichl, libri liberorum, Vol. 20 (51), 2019)