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Children's Literature And The "New Negro", Fern Kory
Children's Literature And The "New Negro", Fern Kory
Fern Kory
Children’s Literature of the Harlem Renaissance is a timely addition to schol-arship on both African American literature and children’s literatureof the early twentieth century. The scope of Katharine Capshaw Smith’swork makes it a particularly welcome follow-up to DonnaRaeMacCann’s award-winning White Supremacy in Children’s Literature(Routledge 1998), which focused on the relationship of African Ameri-can children to mainstream children’s literature from 1830 to 1900.Dr. Smith moves us to the next stage, focusing on the emergence ofan African American children’s literature in the first half of the twen-tieth century. Smith looks at major players in African Americanchildren’s literature in roughly chronological order, starting …
Once Upon A Time In Aframerica: The "Peculiar" Significance Of Fairies In The Brownies' Book, Fern Kory
Once Upon A Time In Aframerica: The "Peculiar" Significance Of Fairies In The Brownies' Book, Fern Kory
Fern Kory
The Brownies'Book (January 1920-December 1921) was a groundbreaking but short-lived monthly children's magazine created in part to provide African American children like Annabelle with "colored" fairies. It was the brainchild of W. E. B. DuBois, the only African American founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and since 1910 the managing editor of the NAACP's official organ, Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races. The Brownies' Book grew out of the popular annual "Children's Number" of Crisis, published each October starting in 1912. In this special issue, dozens of photographs of African American children submitted …