The Color of Children’s Literature
Volume 35, Number 6
September-October 2014
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Charles Johnson’s Introduction to Focus, “The Color of Children’s Literature”
Richard E. Hart reviews Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming
George Yancy’s “Of Black Bodies, Watermelons, and a Series of Unfortunate Events”
Rita Williams-Garcia’s “One Nation’s History under Multiple Viewpoints”
Jim McWilliams interviews Patrik Henry Bass and Jerry Craft, The Zero Degree Zombie Zone
Gene Luen Yang’s “The Color of Comic Books
Beth Bacon reviews Tonya Bolden’s Searching for Sara Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
