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That is my dream! : a picture book of Langston Hughes's \Dream Variation\
\"Dream Variation,\" one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems--about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice--is now a picture book illustrated by Daniel Miyares, in which an African-American boy faces the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice, but dreams of a different life--one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun.
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Agency in Absentia: Child Authorship under Racial Oppression in The Me Nobody Knows
The wave of youth anthologies partly reflected a growing awareness of children's political influence, as witnessed nationwide in news stories and television footage of young African Americans in school desegregation battles and the broader civil rights movement. [...]an increasingly racialized discourse of juvenile delinquency, heightened by coverage of the civil disorders that spread through U.S. cities in the late 1960s, figured black boys and other children of color as \"social dynamite,\" threatening agents of disorder and revenge for American racial and economic oppression (Hinton 29). [...]many of the young authors behind the show may have never learned of its existence. Young writers' simultaneous centrality and absence in The Me reveals a twentieth-century incarnation of Elizabeth Maddock Dillon's concept of \"intimate distance,\" according to which white power maintains colonial relations, particularly the control of black lives, by \"creating a sense of presence in the face of physical absence, and generating a sense of absence or erasure in the face of physical presence\" (16).
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Radical Children’s Literature for Adults and The Inner City Mother Goose
This article explores the radical possibilities of children’s literature for adults, using as a case study The Inner City Mother Goose, a book of poetry for adults written by Eve Merriam and published, with “visuals” by Lawrence Ratzkin, in 1969. As one of the most frequently banned books of the 1970s, a period in which children’s literature and childhood itself saw dramatic changes, The Inner City Mother Goose is a good representative of the children’s book for adults, suggesting the ways in which parody, satire, and formal conventions of genres typically associated with children’s reading (nursery rhymes, abecedaries, board books, picture books, etc.) can function as aesthetic and formal cues that call the boundaries of adulthood and childhood into question to humorous but also, at times, politically radical effect. In the slippage between audiences, especially as children mischievously embrace texts that invite young people in while implicitly or explicitly excluding them, children not only gain access to ostensibly forbidden knowledge but also gain insight into adult hypocrisy. Most importantly, they gain an incentive to act independently and autonomously so as to eliminate contradictions between the “truths” and values they have been taught and those they have discovered by reading a children’s book that was ostensibly not intended for children.
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Free's excited about a local poetry contest because of its cash prize, but when he and Dyamonde befriend a classmate who's homeless and living in a shelter, they rethink what it means to be rich or poor.
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Ode to grapefruit : how James Earl Jones found his voice
Before legendary actor James Earl Jones was recognized for his memorable, smooth voice, he was just James -- a stutterer who stopped speaking for eight years as a child...and ultimately found his voice through poetry.
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The Baltimore Sun Susan Reimer column
[...]when a constituent asked Baltimore County Del. Dana Stein if there was a way to make lacrosse safer for girls and young women, he wrote legislation that would require players in public schools and recreational leagues to wear protective head gear. [...]women's lacrosse has so little in common with the men's game that it ought to be called something else altogether.
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The former Portuguese prime minister and U-N refugee chief says it is time for all people to put peace first. (\"..end in sight.\") The former Portuguese prime minister and U-N refugee chief says the entire world needs to work to resolve conflicts. (\"..our differences.\")
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Chicago Tribune Dawn Turner Trice column
[...]in 1988, the City Council passed an amendment to the city's human rights ordinance forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in housing, employment, public accommodations and credit transactions. [...]2005, in other parts of the state, you could still fire somebody for being gay.
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