Lesley Bracero and Natoia Franklin are educators and published writers with strong ties to Waukegan, North Chicago and Zion, who collaborate as the Melanated Authors reading to schoolchildren and are ...

CARBONDALE — Although a course in multicultural literature has been on the books at Southern Illinois University Carbondale for quite some time, Crystal-Shelby Caffey, assistant professor of language, ...

Loriene Roy, President of the American Library Association, suggests the best books for children of color. And finally, speaking of things to do on a weekend, this is a big weekend for the book ...

"She said, 'Mommy why don't they show brown people in movies and books?'" A 7-year-old girl is determined to get multicultural crayons and books featuring diverse characters into California classrooms ...

When two moms - both reading advocates - struggled to find books reflecting their own children they decided to do something to make a difference. Valarie Budayr and Mia Wenjen co-founded the nonprofit ...

I. The sociological contexts of cultural authenticity. 1. The complexity of cultural authenticity in children's literature : why the debates really matter / Kathy G. Short and Dana L. Fox -- 2.

Erika Dreifus‘s first book, “Quiet Americans,” will be published on January 19th. Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish ...

In a provocative 2004 speech entitled “I Have a Plan to Destroy America,” Richard D. Lamm, the former three-term Governor of Colorado, equated “multi-culturalism” with “the doctrine of ‘Victimology.’ ...

First published in 1974, MELUS features peer-reviewed articles, interviews and reviews encompassing the multi-ethnic scope of American literature past and present. Most issues are thematically ...

This course can be applied to the education minor. The purpose of this course focuses on the development of a critical lens that examines the cultural authenticity of multicultural children's ...