African and African American Images in Newbery Award Winning Titles: Progress in Portrayals

By Binnie Tate Wilkin

Book Overview

In Images of Africans and African Americans in Newbery Award Winning Titles: Progress in Portrayals, Binnie Tate Wilkin provides a historical and contextual examination of those titles that have won or been nominated for the nation's most prestigious award for children's literature. Wilkin explores the depictions of African and African American characters in these novels and illuminates the progressive quality of such representations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810869594
• ISBN13: 9780810869592
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"