Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books - Softcover

Nel, Philip

 
9780190932879: Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

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A must-read manifesto on the hidden racism and current state of children's literature

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About the Author

Philip Nel is University Distinguished Professor of English at Kansas State University. His many books include Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature (UP Mississippi, 2012), Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature (NYU Press, 2008, co-edited with Julia Mickenberg), The Annotated Cat: Under the Hats of Seuss and His Cats (Random House, 2007), and Dr. Seuss: American Icon (Continuum, 2004).

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9780190635077: Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

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ISBN 10:  019063507X ISBN 13:  9780190635077
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2017
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