Research Catalog

Title

Multicultural voices in contemporary literature : a resource for teachers / Frances Ann Day.

Author

Day, Frances Ann.

Publication

Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, ©1999.

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Details

Description

v, 282 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

This guide is highly versatile, enabling readers to adapt the material to fit their individual teaching and learning styles, curriculum requirements, and educational goals. Educators, librarians, and parents alike will find the book an inspiring resource.

Subject

• American literature > Minority authors > Study and teaching
• Minorities > Intellectual life > Study and teaching > United States
• Minorities in literature > Study and teaching > United States
• Children's literature, American > Study and teaching
• Cultural pluralism > Study and teaching
• Ethnic groups in literature > Study and teaching
• Ethnicity in literature > Study and teaching
• Children > Books and reading > United States
• Children > Books and reading
• Minorities in literature > Study and teaching
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 265) and indexes.

Contents

Overview: Why this guide? -- Evaluating children's books for bias -- Authors and their stories: Rudolfo Alfonso Anaya, Mexican American -- George Ancona, Mexican American -- Shonto Begay, Navajo -- Anilu Bernardo, Cuban American -- Ignatia Broker, Ojibway/Chippewa -- Joseph Bruchac, Abenaki, English, and Slovak -- Jeannette Franklin Caines, Black American -- Dia Cha, Hmong American -- Sook Nyul Choi, Korean American -- Barbara Cohen, Jewish American -- Pat Cummings, African American -- Vivian Sheldon Epstein, Humanist -- Nancy Garden, German Italian American -- Carmen Lomas Garza, Chicana -- Nikki Yolanda Giovanni, Black American -- Eloise Greenfield, African American-- Virginia Hamilton, African American -- Joyce Hansen, African American -- Minfong Ho, overseas Chinese -- Johanna Hurwitz, Jewish American -- Joy Nozomi Kogawa, Japanese Canadian -- Jeanne M. Lee, Chinese American -- George Littlechild, Plains Cree Canadian -- Bette Bao Lord, Chinese American -- Sharon Bell Mathis, African American -- Patricia C. Mckissack, African American -- Nicholasa Mohr, Puerto Rican American -- Min Paek, Korean American -- Faith Ringgold, African American -- Sandra Scoppettone, Italian American -- Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Lakota -- Yoshiko Uchida, Japanese American -- Mai Vo-Dinh, Vietnamese American -- Alice Walker, African American -- Mildred Pitts Walter, African American -- Yoko Kawashima Watkins, Japanese American -- Camille Yarbrough, African American -- Paul Yee, Chinese Canadian -- Laurence Yep, Chinese American.

ISBN

• 0325001308
• 9780325001302

LCCN

99029447

OCLC

• ocm41361458
• 41361458
• SCSB-1142838

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library