minorities 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.

Collects critical essays on John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," including selections by Kathleen Hicks, Tom Barden, Mimi Reisel Gladstein, and others; and includes a chronology of the life of the author.

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

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

A study of the mid-century American novel with critical commentary that encompasses the political literature of the 1930s, the beat movement of the 1950s, and the multicultural literature of the 1960s.

An annotated list of 1970-1990 multicultural books for elementary, middle, and high school students.

Profiles important American ethnic writers from Gordon Parks, Sr. through Al Young, and discusses the author's major works, and describes how they express their sense of identity through both fiction and nonfiction writings; and includes appendixes and indexes.

Profiles important American ethnic writers from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. through Grace Paley, and discusses the author's major works, and describes how they express their sense of identity through both fiction and nonfiction writings.