... for the better since Nancy Larrick first spotlighted “The All-White World of Children’s Books” in her 1965 article for the Saturday Review . While children of color now make up about half of the school population, Nel notes, the percentage of children’s books featuring people of color has never topped 15...

... argues that animal proxies reveal “unconscious” adult pressures to promote both color blindness and diversity, to further the paradoxical belief that we are simultaneously all the same and all different. My intent is neither to valorize nor indict racial abstraction in children’s literature but to unveil...

... deepens our historical understanding of current animal welfare work and more recent children’s texts about animals and color, prompting us to consider alternative methods for presenting animal agency and to continue our investigations of the “humane.” In the nineteenth century, children were seen...

... of Americanization at NYPL in the 1920s disclose the complexity of belonging while anticipating ongoing debates about how to present the American past to twenty-first-century children. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 immigrants children of color US historical...

... racial terms. He famously and prophetically declared that the ‘‘color line’’ would be ‘‘the problem of the Twentieth Century 13 It was certainly his own central ‘‘prob- lem he even subtitled his second autobiography...

... magazines and DuBois’s new one would be an increased focus—or, rather, a focus at all—on African Americans and the color line. Many mainstream periodicals of the time were negligent or derogatory in their coverage of African American life, as articles in the Crisis repeat- edly confirm.7 A few white...

... unprecedented ascendancy, of freedom in the new nation, and the disjunction between the children’s racial identity and the color of their skin makes palpable the final inadequacy of race to justify slavery in a nation founded upon freedom. American Literature, Volume 76, Number 2, June 2004. Copyright ©...

... to the world of my childhood,” however, which he observes “isn’t a place I especially want to revisit anyway” (6). Although he includes a chapter on convergences of technique and materiality in children’s books and comics, he does not single out the figure of the boy reader, instead emphasizing how color can...

... white wives and children who expected to receive the entire fortune of their husbands and fathers. As I read these cases, I searched for the words of these free women of color. However, I found only legal arguments outlining property rights and inheritance claims, the meticulous dis- course...

... : Univ. of North Carolina Press . Sterne Jonathan . 2003 . The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Stoever-Ackerman Jennifer . 2010 . “ Splicing the Sonic Color-Line: Tony Schwartz Remixes Postwar Nueva York .” Social Text 28...

... onceived in slavery, gestated in racialist science, 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 125 of 255 C and bred in Jim Crow segregation, the U.S. race system calcified into a visual epistemology of racial difference based largely on skin color...

...; the grown homosexual trapped in a stage of arrested development; the Freudian child, marked by aggres- sion and a precocious sexuality; the innocent child made strange by virtue of the fact that no adult can access an innocent relation to the world; and the child queered by color, the nonwhite, non...

... that delimit the destinies of poor children of color. In contrast to the oppression of English language in elementary school, English instruction in higher education opens opportunities of self-transformation. At Pasadena City College, Reyna’s instructor, Dr. Diana Savas, hands her a copy of Helena María...

... the emerging trope of the perpetually childlike black subject. Education could be considered an endorsement of the argu- ment that all children were destined to evolve and adopt adult wisdom and rationality. Conversely, white-sponsored education of poor chil- dren of color could function merely...

... from its mother by mis- taken benevolence.”22 The final verdict in Aves freed Med, although it placed her in the chronically underfunded Boston Samaritan Asy- lum for Indigent Colored Children that BFASS members had recently established.23 In a renaming ritual depicted in many slave narratives...

... looks bad is a nice color Questions 5 through 8: ‘‘Give me the doll that looks like a whitechildacoloredchildaNegrochildlikeyou 18 See Kenneth B. Clark and Mamie P. Clark, ‘‘Emotional Factors in Racial Identification and Preference in Negro Children Journal of Negro Edu- cation 19...

... roles of working class and especially women of color are carefully addressed. The strengths are in the use of a wide range of archival material including letters, business documents, scrapbooks, cartoons, and photographs. Moreover, these archives concern women working not only in print media...

.... Skin color and religion are the classic markers by which Ameri- cans customarily identify and define the Other, but Bulosan also uses diet and locale. He and his revolutionary characters play with these four markers...

...—as Gates put it, “Western culture’s use of writing as a commodity to confine and delimit a culture of color”—that Gates and his readers would return to it many times over the next twenty years.5 Somewhere in the retell- ings, the story took on a life of its own, and its imagined lineaments assumed...

... and the U.S. regimes, but in practice Church leaders tolerated such liaisons and did not generally condemn either those who engaged in them or their children.15 While this unofficial tolerance helped free Creoles of color to preserve their status, it also perpetuated the sexual exploitation of free women...