Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature

A Critical Reader

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvMarilisa Jiménez García,Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez,Marilisa (Rutgers University-Camden) Jimenez Garcia,Sonia Alejandra (LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)) Rodriguez

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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 García and Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-07-01
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures
Antal sidor210
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9798855802986

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Marilisa Jiménez García 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 Rodríguez is Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY). They coedit the journal Research on Diversity in Youth Literature.

Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: Walking Between the LinesMarilisa Jiménez García and Sonia Alejandra RodríguezOpening Poem: My CurriculumAlissa Alina FloresSection 1: Youth as Intellectuals and Storytellers1. Out of Empire's Shadow: Confronting US Imperialism through Randy Ribay's The Patron Saints of NothingLara Saguisag2. Becoming a Girl: Girlhood, Child Marriage, and Widowhood in Kashmira Sheth's Keeping CornerBlessy Sharon Samjose3. "Let Me Tell You a Story": Healing, Environmental Justice, and Resistance in Mark Oshiro's Each of Us a DesertSonia Alejandra RodríguezSection 2: Intersectionality and Counternarratives4. Representations of Asian American Girlhood in Contemporary Young Adult LiteratureJung E. Kim5. In the Spirit: Womanist Notions of Blackness, Indigeneity, Gender, and Dis/ability in Children's LiteratureReanae McNeal6. The Power of Story, Images, and Policy in Native Studies: An Interview with Traci Sorell and Alia JonesMarilisa Jiménez García and Sonia Alejandra RodríguezSection 3: Community Frameworks7. African American Children's Literature: The First 100 Years (reprint)Violet J. Harris8. Critical Indigenous Literacies: Selecting and Using Children's Books about Indigenous Peoples (reprint)Debbie Reese9. The Mirror, the Matrix, the Movement: Intellectual Legacies of the Council on Interracial Books for ChildrenMarilisa Jiménez GarcíaCoda: Reflections on Struggle, Freedom, and StorytellingMarilisa Jiménez García and Sonia Alejandra RodríguezList of ContributorsIndex

"This bold and necessary collection brings together scholars, educators, and writers who challenge assumptions and ideas about youth literature, calling for a deeper, more intentional engagement with ethnic studies frameworks … Highly recommended." — School Library Journal"Jiménez García, Rodríguez, 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 Millán, author of Coloring into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children's Literature