References

Abolition (pre 1860)

  • Bernstein, Robin. Racial Innocence : Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. New York University Press, 2011.
  • Fielder, Brigitte. “Black Girls, White Girls, American Girls: Slavery and Racialized Perspectives in Abolitionist and Neoabolitionist Children’s Literature.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, vol. 36, no. 2, 2017, pp. 323–352.
  • Haywood, Chanta M. “Constructing Childhood: The Christian Recorder and Literature for Black Children, 1854-1865.” African American Review, no. 3, 2002, p. 417.
  • Matijasic, Thomas D. “Abolition Movement in the U.S.” Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2019.
  • Russo, Robyn. “‘When Children Are Not Glad’: Sympathy, Performance, and Power in Abolitionist Children’s Literature.” The AnaChronisT, 2009, p. 67.

Mission Trip (1860s)

  • Bays, Daniel H. The Foreign Missionary Movement in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, The Nineteenth Century, Divining America: Religion in American History, TeacherServe, National Humanities Center, http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/fmmovement.htm.
  • Chen, Shih-Wen Sue. “‘To Write for Children, and to Write Well’: Protestant Mission Presses and the Development of Children’s Literature in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century China.” Barnboken: Tidskrift För Barnlitteraturforskning, 2016. 
  • Jones, Arun W. Missionary Christianity and Local Religion: American Evangelicalism in North India, 1836–1870. Studies in World Christianity. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2017. xxi + 321 pp.
  • Odugu, Desmond Ikenna. “Historiographic Reconsideration of Colonial Education in Africa: Domestic Forces in the Early Expansion of English Schooling in Northern Igboland, 1890-1930.” History of Education Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 2, May 2016, pp. 241–272. 
  • Rodney Stark, and Buster G. Smith. “Pluralism and the Churching of Latin America.” Latin American Politics and Society, vol. 54, no. 2, 2012, p. 35. 
  • Samuel, Joshua. “Missionary Christianity and Local Religion: American Evangelicalism in North India, 1836–1870.” Church History, vol. 88, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 538–541. 

New South (1970s-1920s)

  • Bernstein, Robin. Racial Innocence : Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. New York University Press, 2011. 
  • Fields, Barbara J. . “Origins of the New South’ and the Negro Question.” The Journal of Southern History, vol. 67, no. 4, 2001, p. 811.
  • Hillyer, Reiko . “Relics of Reconciliation: The Confederate Museum and Civil War Memory in the New South.” The Public Historian, vol. 33, no. 4, 2011, p. 35. 
  • Wright, Emily Powers.  “The New Woman of the New South.” The History of Southern Women’s Literature, pp. 133-140.

First Child Cruelty Laws (1870s)

  • Flegel, Monica. Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England: Literature, Representation and the NSPCC. Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to Present. Routledge, 2009. 
  • Jalongo, Mary. “The Story of Mary Ellen Wilson: Tracing the Origins of Child Protection in America.” Early Childhood Education Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, Aug. 2006, pp. 1–4.
  • Shelman, Eric A. Out of the Darkness: The Story of Mary Ellen Wilson. Dolphin Moon Publishing, 1999.

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

  • History.com Staff. “Chinese Exclusion Act.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 24 Aug. 2018, https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/chinese-exclusion-act-1882.
  • Hsieh, Ivy Haoyin, “Confucian Principles: A Study of Chinese Americans’ Interpersonal Relationships in Selected Children’s Picturebooks.” Children’s Literature in Education, vol. 49, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 216–231.
  • Kil, SangHea. “Fearing Yellow, Imagining White: Media Analysis of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.” Social Identities, vol. 18, no. 6, Nov. 2012, pp. 663–677.
  • Schueller, Malini Johar. U.S. Orientalisms : Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890. University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Spanish American War (1899)

  • Carroll, Wayne M., and Gwen Taylor. “Adolescent Literature about the Splendid Little War” Social Studies, vol. 89, no. 3, May 1998, p. 134. 
  • Charnon-Deutsch, Lou. “Cartoons and the Politics of Masculinity in the Spanish and American Press during the War of 1898.” Revista Prisma Social, no. 13, Dec. 2014, p. 109.
  • Gould, Lewis L., and William I. Hair. “Spanish-American War.” Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2019. 
  • Kramer, David. “The Spanish-American War as a Bourgeois Testing Ground.” War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities, vol. 27, June 2015, pp. 1–32. 
  • Paterson, Thomas G. “United States Intervention in Cuba, 1898: Interpretations of the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War.” History Teacher, vol. 29, May 1996, pp. 341–361.

Development of the NAACP (1909)

  • Brethorst, Katie. “Springfield Race Riot: 112 Years of History.” UWIRE Text, 2019. 
  • Bynum, Thomas L. NAACP Youth and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1936–1965. Vol. 1st ed, Univ Tennessee Press, 2013. 
  • “NAACP Centennial Timeline.” Finding the Voice of the NAACP (March 2010) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin, https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/1003/timeline.html.
  • Phillips, Michelle H.. “The Children of Double Consciousness: From The Souls of Black Folk to the Brownies’ Book.” PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, vol. 128, no. 3, May 2013, p. 590. 
  • Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth., et al. “Much Ado About A Fine Dessert The Cultural Politics of Representing Slavery in Children’s Literature.” Journal of Children’s Literature, vol. 42, no. 2, Fall 2016, pp. 6–17.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)

  • Hoiem, Elizabeth Massa. “Radical Cross-Writing for Working Children: Toward a Bottom-Up History of Children’s Literature.” Lion & the Unicorn, vol. 41, no. 1, Jan. 2017, p. 1 - 27. 
  • Richardson, Betty. “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.” Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2019.

Harlem Renaissance (1920s)

  • Alvarez, Joseph A. “Arna Bontemps.” Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2018. 
  • Berg, S.Carol. “Harlem Renaissance.” Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2019. 
  • Capshaw-Smith, Katharine. Children’s Literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Indiana University Press, 2004. 
  • Harris, Violet J. . “From Little Black Sambo to Popo and Fifina: Arna Bontemps and the Creation of African-American Children’s Literature.” Vol. 14, no. 1, 2009, pp. 108–127. 
  • Hughes, Langston. "Books and the Negro Child." The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs Vol. 9, ed. Christopher C. De Santis,  University of Missouri Press, 2002, pp.49-51.
  • Low, Bernadette Flynn. “Alice Dunbar-Nelson.” Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2018. 
  • Rampersad, Arnold. The Life of Langston Hughes. New York: Oxford UP, 1986.
  • Zieger, Gay Pitman. “Langston Hughes.” Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2019.

We Build Together (1941-1948)

  • Rholetter, Wylene, PhD. “Newbery Medal.” Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2018. 
  • Rollins, Charlemae Hill. We Build Together; a Reader’s Guide to Negro Life and Literature for Elementary and High School Use. The National council of teachers of English, 1941.
  • Tolson, Nancy. “Making Books Available: The Role of Early Libraries, Librarians, and Booksellers in the Promotion of African American Children’s Literature.” African American Review, no. 1, 1998, p. 9.
  • Wilkin, Binnie Tate. African and African American Images in Newbery Award Winning Titles : Progress in Portrayals. Scarecrow Press, 2009. 
  • Willett, Holly G. “We Build Together: Charlemae Rollins and African American Children’s Literature.” American Educational History Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, Mar. 2004, pp. 51–57.

Holocaust (1940s)

  • Bosmajian, Hamida. Sparing the Child : Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust. Routledge, 2002. 
  • Eichler-Levine, Jodi. Suffer the Little Children : Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children’s Literature. New York University Press, 2013.
  • Redmann, Jennifer . “‘Läßt Sich Daraus Was Lernen?’ Children’s Literature, Education, and Ideology in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.” Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, vol. 31, no. 2, 1998, p. 131. 
  • Roth, John K. “Holocaust.” Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2019. 
  • Vaughan, Susan C. “In the Night Kitchen: What Are the Ingredients of Infantile Sexuality?” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, vol. 27, no. 3, May 2017, pp. 344–348.

Cold War and Latin America (1947-1960s)

  • Bahmueller, Charles F. “Cold War.” Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2019.
  • Croce, Marcela, et al. “Walt Disney's Latin American Tour.” Jacobin, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/10/disney-donald-duck-carioca-latin-america-imperialism.
  • Eckhardt, Ivan . “The Guatemalan Civil War: The Bipolarisation of an Internal Conflict.” Perspectives, no. 25, 2005, p. 23.  
  • Gleibman, Shlomo. “‘The Madness of the Carnival’: Representations of Latin America and the Caribbean in the U.S. Homophile Press.” Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 64, no. 7, July 2017, pp. 870–888. 
  • Harmer, Tanya. “Fractious Allies: Chile, the United States, and the Cold War, 1973–76.” Diplomatic History, vol. 37, no. 1, Jan. 2013, pp. 109–143. 
  • Peacock, Margaret. “Cold War Consumption and the Marketing of Childhood in the Soviet Union and the United States, 1950-1960.” Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, no. 1, 2016, p. 83. 
  • Rabe, Stephen G. The Killing Zone : The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America. Oxford University Press, 2012. 
  • Suk, Jiří. “The Utopian Rationalism of the Prague Spring of 1968.” American Historical Review, vol. 123, no. 3, June 2018, pp. 764–768.

Barbara Johns and Ruby Bridges (1960s) / Children’s March in Birmingham (1963)

  • Bickford, John H. “Assessing and Addressing Historical Misrepresentations within Children's Literature about the Civil Rights Movement.” The History Teacher, vol. 48, no. 4, 2015, pp. 693–736., www.jstor.org/stable/24810454.
  • Bubar, Joe, and Rebecca Zissou. “The 16-Year-Old Who Fought Segregation.” New York Times Upfront, vol. 151, no. 12, Apr. 2019, pp. 18–21. 
  • Cook, Erin, and Leanna Racine. “The Children's Crusade and the Role of Youth in the African American Freedom Struggle.” OAH Magazine of History, vol. 19, no. 1, 2005, pp. 31–36. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25163740.
  • Franklin, V.P. “Documenting the Contributions of Children and Teenagers to the Civil Rights Movement.” Journal of African American History, vol. 100, no. 4, 2015, p. 663. 
  • Martin, Michelle. “African American.” Keywords for Children’s Literature, edited by Philip Nel and Lissa Paul, NYU Press, 2011, pp. 9–13. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qg46g.6. Meadows, Karen. “The Desegregation of Public Schools: Ruby Bridges, Millicent E. Brown, and Josephine Boyd Bradley -- Black Educators by Any Means Necessary.” Vitae Scholasticae, vol. 28, no. 2, Sept. 2011, pp. 23–33.

Stonewall (1969)

  • Carter, David. “What Made Stonewall Different.” The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide (Periodical), no. 1, 2019, p. S28. 
  • Denneny, Michael. “Stonewall as Event and Idea.” The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide (Periodical), no. 1, 2019, p. S17. 
  • Jiménez, Laura M. “Representations in Award-Winning LGBTQ Young Adult Literature from 2000–2013.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 19, no. 4, Oct. 2015, pp. 406–422. 
  • Kidd, Kenneth. “Introduction: Lesbian/Gay Literature for Children and Young Adults.” Vol. 23, no. 3, 2009, pp. 114–119.

Occupation of Alcatraz (1969-71) and Wounded Knee (1973)

  • Chaudhri, Amina, and Nicole Schau. “Imaginary Indians: Representations of Native Americans in Scholastic Reading Club.” Children’s Literature in Education: An International Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 1, 2016, p. 18. 
  • Clabaugh, Erik K. “The Evolution of a Massacre in Newspaper Depictions of the Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee, 1876-1891.” Atlanta Review of Journalism History, vol. 12, Spring 2015, pp. 38–64.
  • Johnson, Troy. “The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Roots of American Indian Activism.” Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 10, no. 2, 1994, pp. 63–79. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1409133.
  • Reese, Debbie. “An Indigenous Critique of Whiteness in Children’s Literature.” Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children, Aug. 2019, pp. 3–11. 
  • Reese, Debbie. (2007). “Proceed with Caution: Using Native American Folktales in the Classroom.” Language Arts, 84(3), 245–256.
  • Wetzel, Christopher. “Envisioning Land Seizure: Diachronic Representations of the Occupation of Alcatraz Island.” American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 56, no. 2, Feb. 2012, pp. 151–171.

AIDS Crisis (1980s)

  • “A Timeline of HIV and AIDS.” HIV.gov, 16 Aug. 2019, https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/history/hiv-and-aids-timeline.
  • Blumenreich, Megan, and Marjorie Siegel. “Innocent Victims, Fighter Cells, and White Uncles: A Discourse Analysis of Children’s Books about AIDS.” Children’s Literature in Education, vol. 37, no. 1, Mar. 2006, pp. 81–110. 
  • Cohen, Cathy J. “Enter AIDS: Context and Confrontation. ” The Boundaries of Blackness : AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. University of Chicago Press, 1999. 
  • “Interchange: HIV/AIDS and U.S. History.” Journal of American History, vol. 104, no. 2, Sept. 2017, pp. 431–460. 
  • Kirp, David L. “Look Back in Anger: Hemophilia and AIDS Activism in the International Tainted-Blood Crisis.” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, vol. 1, no. 2, 1999, p. 177.
  • McRuer, Robert. "Reading and Writing “Immunity”: Children and the Anti-Body." Vol. 23, no. 3, 2009, pp. 134–142.

Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)

  • “ADA - Findings, Purpose, and History.” Celebrate the ADA & Anniversary Tool Kit, https://www.adaanniversary.org/findings_purpose.
  • Dowker, Ann. “The Treatment of Disability in 19th and Early 20th Century Children's Literature.” Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, 2004. http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/843/1018
  • Forber-Pratt, Anjali J. “(Re)Defining Disability Culture: Perspectives from the Americans with Disabilities Act Generation.” Culture & Psychology, vol. 25, no. 2, June 2019, p. 241.
  • Keith, Lois. “What Writers Did Next: Disability, Illness and Cure in books in the Second Half of the 20th Century.” Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, 2004. http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/845/1020

9/11 (2000s)

  • Dudziak, Mary L. . “Foreword: How 9/11 Made ‘History.’” OAH Magazine of History, vol. 25, no. 3, 2011, p. 5. 
  • Mohanty, C. “Under Western Eyes : Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.” Boundary 2 12-13.3-1 (1984): 333–358. 
  • Rycik, Mary Taylor. “9/11 to the Iraq War: Using Books to Help Children Understand Troubled Times.” Childhood Education, vol. 82, no. 3, Jan. 2006, p. 145. 
  • Torres, Heidi. “On the Margins: The Depiction of Muslims in Young Children’s Picture Books.” Children’s Literature in Education, vol. 47, no. 3, Sept. 2016, pp. 191–208.

DACA (2010s)

  • Balderrama, Sandra Ríos. “The Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Pura Belpré Award.” Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children, vol. 4, no. 3, Winter 2006, pp. 35–37.
  • Banet-Weiser, Sarah . “Elián González and ‘The Purpose of America’: Nation, Family, and the Child-Citizen.” American Quarterly, vol. 55, no. 2, 2003, p. 149. 
  • “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).” Department of Homeland Security, 23 Sept. 2019, https://www.dhs.gov/deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca.
  • Dussault, Susan B. “Who Needs Daca or the Dream Act? How the Ordinary Use of Executive Discretion Can Help (Some) Childhood Arrivals Become Citizens.” Lewis & Clark Law Review, no. 2, 2018, p. 441. 
  • Gomm, Jeff, et al. “Analysis of Latino Award Winning Children’s Literature.” School Psychology International, vol. 38, no. 5, Oct. 2017, pp. 507–522. 
  • Jiménez-García, Marilisa. “The Pura Belpré Medal: The Latino/a Child in America, the ‘Need’ for Diversity, and Name-Branding Latinidad.” Prizing Children’s Literature. Routledge, 2017. 118–131. Web.
  • Rodriguez, Sanjuana C…, and Eliza Gabrielle Braden “Representation of Latinx Immigrants and Immigration in Children’s Literature: A Critical Content Analysis.” Journal of Children’s Literature, vol. 44, no. 2, Fall 2018, pp. 46–61.
  • Serrato, Phillip. “Latino/a.” Keywords for Childrens Literature, edited by Philip Nel and Lissa Paul, NYU Press, 2011, pp. 133–137. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qg46g.32.

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