ethnic groups in literature

"Writes about nineteenth-century literary efforts to romance slavery, contrasting them with the scientific racism of Samuel Cartwright and the banal diaries of the plantation overseer and slaveholder Thomas Thistlewood. She looks at configurations of blackness, notions of racial purity, and the ways in which literature employs skin color to reveal character or drive narrative"--Amazon.

Presents an annotated listing of multicultural books for young people ages eleven to fifteen, arranged alphabetically by title, with author and cultural indexes. Expands the definition of multicultural to cover ethnicity, sexual orientation, and physical, mental, or emotional challenges.

Presents a practical resource guide that helps children and young adults better understand diversity and acceptance through literature.

References over 900 picture books for three-to-eight-year-olds which can teach them about other countries.

Use this directory to select titles for a diverse population.

Contains the lives and works of seventy-five American ethnic poets including Maya Angelou, N. Scott Momaday, Rita Dove, Pat Mora and Derek Walcott.

Profiles forty multicultural authors and their literature for children, and provides study questions and activities.

Resource guide to culturally authentic materials and programs presenting basic titles and practical program ideas.

Profiles five hundred children's books published between 1994 and 1999 that represent African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans, providing brief plot summaries, evaluations of style and cultural values, publication information, and age and grade levels.