Open AccessDiversity as Evolutionary in Children’s Literature: The Blog Effect
Author(s) -
Edith Campbell
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
children and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2374-7641
pISSN - 1542-9806
DOI - 10.5860/cal.15.3.9
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , representation (politics) , african american , gender studies , history , sociology , psychology , political science , anthropology , law , politics
The call for better representation of African Americans in children’s literature can be traced back about eighty years through the works of social and literary leaders including Sterling Brown. In 1933, he wrote of the pervasiveness of stereotypes of African Americans in literature, happy slaves and the representation of African Americans in American literature.