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" Was the cat in the hat black? : "
Philip Nel.
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BL
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558543
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b387482
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Philip Nel
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Was the cat in the hat black? : : the hidden racism of children's literature, and the need for diverse books\ Philip Nel.
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New York : Oxford University Press,, [2017] ©2017
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0190635088
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: 9780190635084
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Cover Was the Cat in the Hat Black? Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Race, Racism, and the Cultures of Childhood 1. The Strange Career of the Cat in the Hat or, Dr. Seuss's Racial Imagination 2. How to Read Uncomfortably: Racism, Affect, and Classic Children's Books 3. Whiteness, Nostalgia, and Fantastic Flying Books: William Joyce's Racial Erasures vs. Hurricane Katrina 4. Don't Judge a Book by Its Color: The Destructive Fantasy of Whitewashing (and Vice-Versa) 5. Childhoods
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America is again in a period of civil rights activism, and one of the key places that racism continues to hide is books for young people. Was the Cat in the Hat Black? deftly diagnoses this systemic problem and offers concrete suggestions on how we may combat it in children's and young adult literature.",,,,"Outside the Boundaries of Imagination": Genre Is the New Jim Crow Conclusion: A Manifesto for Anti-Racist Children's LiteratureNotes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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