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Re: Interesting blog post on Black History in YA (and MG)
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From: Lyn Miller-Lachmann <lynml_at_me.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:28:19 -0500
That's a nice-looking timeline and a good way of illustrating the gaps, but I can think of a couple she missed that would fill in some holes. One of them is Barbara Wright's CROW, a middle grade novel suitable for YA and an important documentation of the Wilmington, NC coup in 1898 that overthrew a multiracial political and business leadership in the city; resulted in the deaths of several dozen black residents and the forced exile of many more; and imposed Jim Crow on one of the last places in the South that had relative racial equality after the Civil War. After decades of silencing research on the subject, a North Carolina commission issued a report in 2006 that acknowledged the actions of a racist state government combined with militias composed in large part of unemployed veterans of the Spanish-American War.
The other is the 2013 YA title REVENGE OF A NOT SO PRETTY GIRL by Carolita Blythe, which captures life in New York City in the 1980s, with references to the 1930s as well.
Both of these are books I reviewed for The Pirate Tree.
Lyn Miller-Lachmann Gringolandia (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, 2009) Rogue (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2013) www.lynmillerlachmann.com www.thepiratetree.com
On Feb 10, 2014, at 1:08 PM, Christine Taylor-Butler wrote:
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:28:19 -0500
That's a nice-looking timeline and a good way of illustrating the gaps, but I can think of a couple she missed that would fill in some holes. One of them is Barbara Wright's CROW, a middle grade novel suitable for YA and an important documentation of the Wilmington, NC coup in 1898 that overthrew a multiracial political and business leadership in the city; resulted in the deaths of several dozen black residents and the forced exile of many more; and imposed Jim Crow on one of the last places in the South that had relative racial equality after the Civil War. After decades of silencing research on the subject, a North Carolina commission issued a report in 2006 that acknowledged the actions of a racist state government combined with militias composed in large part of unemployed veterans of the Spanish-American War.
The other is the 2013 YA title REVENGE OF A NOT SO PRETTY GIRL by Carolita Blythe, which captures life in New York City in the 1980s, with references to the 1930s as well.
Both of these are books I reviewed for The Pirate Tree.
Lyn Miller-Lachmann Gringolandia (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, 2009) Rogue (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2013) www.lynmillerlachmann.com www.thepiratetree.com
On Feb 10, 2014, at 1:08 PM, Christine Taylor-Butler wrote:
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