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Author Sands-O'Connor, Karen, author.

Title Children's publishing and black Britain, 1965-2015 / Karen Sands-O'Connor
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (x, 197 pages)
Series Critical approaches to children's literature
Critical approaches to children's literature.
Contents Children's Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction: We're Here Because You Were There-The Beginnings of Publishing for a Black British Audience; The Fight for the Abolition of Slavery and Children's Literature (1750-1838); Empire (1850s-World War II); Caribbean Voices, 1945-1965; Notes; Works Cited; 2 Postwar Education, Reading Schemes, and Race: Leila Berg and Nippers; Works Cited; 3 Britain, Black Empowerment and Bogle L'Ouverture: Independent Black Publishing of the 1960s-1980s; Notes; Works Cited
4 The Multicultural Education Movement, Anti-Racism and Publishing for Children, 1980-1995Note; Works Cited; 5 New Models for Engagement: Independent Publishing After 1990; Works Cited; 6 Stephen Lawrence, Institutional Racism and Mary Seacole in the National Curriculum; Works Cited; 7 Prizes, Awards and Publishing for a Black British Audience; Works Cited; 8 Conclusion: We're Still Here Because You Were There-So Now What?; Works Cited; Index
Summary This book examines a critical period in British children's publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK. Taking a historical approach that includes education acts, Black protest, community publishing and children's literature prizes, the study investigates the motivation behind both independent and mainstream publishing firm decisions to produce books for a specifically Black British audience. Beginning with a consideration of early reading schemes that incorporated Black and Asian characters, the book continues with a history of one of the earliest presses to publish for children, Bogle L'Ouverture. Other chapters look at the influence of community-based and independent presses, the era of multiculturalism and anti-racism, the effect of racially-motivated violence on children's publishing, and the dubious benefit of awards for Black British publishing. The volume will appeal to children's literature scholars, librarians, teachers, education-policy makers and Black British historians
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 28, 2017)
Subject Children's literature, English -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
Children, Black, in literature.
Children's literature, English -- History and criticism
Literature: history & criticism.
Publishing industry & book trade.
Children's & teenage literature studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Media Studies.
Children, Black, in literature
Children's literature, English
Media Studies.
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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