ABSTRACT
The first two sections of this volume situate African-American children’s literature within historical and professional contexts. This final section of Brown Gold addresses the place of black picture books within academia. Chapters 6 and 7 offer an analysis of two aspects of African-American culture that exist as oral forms that have now evolved into entire subgenres of African-American children’s picture books: history and religious beliefs. Chapter 8 focuses on the forms of black language that have begun to be represented within the genre-yet another way that black orality has become a picture book phenomenon in recent years. And chapter 9 explores a few ways that these texts can be useful in college courses in Children’s and Young Adult Literature to give students a richer sense of African-American history and culture.
