Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children's Literature: Mirrors, Windows, and Doors Book

Foreword, Sonia Nieto

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 The Metaphors We Read By: Theoretical Foundations

Chapter 2 The Historical Construction of Children’s Literature

Chapter 3 Reading Literacy Narratives

Chapter 4 Deconstructing Multiculturalism in Children’s Literature

Chapter 5 Theorizing Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children’s Literature

Chapter 6 Doors to the Diaspora: The Social Construction of Race

Chapter 7 Leaving Poverty Behind: The Social Construction of Class

Chapter 8 Genres as Social Constructions: The Intertextuality of Children’s Literature

Chapter 9 Cinderella: The Social Construction of Gender

Chapter 10 Shock of Hair: The Endurance of Hair as a Cultural Theme in Children’s Literature

Chapter 11 Teaching Critical Multicultural Analysis

Further Dialogue with Mingshui Cai, Patrick Shannon, and Junko Yokota

APPENDICES

Appendix A Children’s Book Awards

Appendix B Children’s Book Publishers

Appendix C Power Continuum: How Power is Exercised

Appendix D Critical Multicultural Analysis

Appendix E The Publishing Practices of the Mexican American Migrant Farmworker Text Collection

Appendix F Children’s Literature Journals

Appendix G Online Resources