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The Américas Award

Honoring Latino/a Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the Americas

Laretta Henderson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
228 Seiten
2015
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0160-6 (ISBN)
109,70 inkl. MwSt
This edited volume performs a critical analysis of the Américas Award, issues related to the content of the award-winning and honored books, and the contexts in which the books are used. It includes chapters by key scholars in the areas of youth literature in English, English Education, Library and Information Science, and Ethnic Studies.
First awarded in 1993, the Américas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean or the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural-international boundaries, focusing instead upon cultural heritages within the hemisphere. The Award is unique in that selects Latino/a youth literature for classroom use and in that it focuses on the entire Western Hemisphere.

Scholars from the fields of literature, education, lbrary science, and theater engage with Latino/a Critical Race Theory (LatCrit) in this ecollection of essays about the Américas Award, the Award-winning and honored books, and the contexts in which the books are used. This collection offers essays on the history of the award, close readings of Award-winning and honored books situated in the classroom, and discussions of how best to use the books in the classroom, library and theater.

Laretta Henderson is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she teaches courses in children’s and young adult literature.

Chapter 1: The Américas Award: Latino/a Youth Literature for the K-12 Classroom
Laretta Henderson
Chapter 2: Why does Latino/a Youth Literature Matter? How Children and Young Adults Learn about Race
Erin Winkler
Chapter 3: Envisioning Tomorrow: The Musings of Julie Kline on the History and Future of the Américas Award
Ruth Quiroa
Chapter 4: Educating for Global Competence through the Américas Award
Denise Woltering Vargas
Chapter 5: The Américas Award, Cultural Competence, and the Politics of Publishing
Jamie Naidoo
Chapter 6: Book Awards, Social Responsibility and Cultural Contextualization
Laretta Henderson
Chapter 7: The Américas Award Books in Early Childhood Education: Reconceptualizing the Conversation about Diversity with Pre-service Teachers
Leanne Evans
Chapter 8: Cultural and Social Justice Issues in the Américas Award Winning Poetry Anthologies
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Chapter 9: Borders, Home, Spirituality, and Language: Sociopolitical Themes in Latino/a Children's Literature 1990-2015
Patricia Enciso and Carmen L. Medina
Chapter 10: Border Crossing: Immigration in the Américas Award Winning Books
Ruth McKoy Lowery
Chapter 11: The Américas Award on Screen: Promoting Critical Engagement with Literature via Multimodal Composition
Candance M. Doerr-Stevens
Chapter 12: The Américas Award on Stage: A Call for More Latino Youth Theater
Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
Chapter 13: Translation and Transformation: The Status of Américas Award Books Translation in East Asia
Wooseob Jeong
Chapter 14: Public Library Service to Latino/a Communities
Colleen E. Marsh
Index
About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Children and Youth in Popular Culture
Co-Autor Candace Doerr-Stevens, Patricia Enciso, Leanne M. Evans, Wooseob Jeong
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 234 mm
Gewicht 458 g
Themenwelt Kinder- / Jugendbuch
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4985-0160-5 / 1498501605
ISBN-13 978-1-4985-0160-6 / 9781498501606
Zustand Neuware
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