ABSTRACT
This critical content analysis examines the ways that Latinx immigrants are positioned in the illustrations of Latinx immigrant journey books—My Diary from Here to There/Mi diario de aqui hasta allá by Amada Irma Perez, Pancho Rabbit and Coyote by Duncan Tonatiuh, and Two White Rabbits by Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng. These books are recently published picturebooks which feature Latinx immigrant characters making the journey from their home country to the United States, written by insiders to Latinx culture. The analysis is guided by Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Latino Critical Race Theory (LatCrit), which explain the multidimensional identities of Latinx and can address the intersectionality of racism, sexism, classism, and other forms of oppression. The analysis focuses on common events depicted in the illustrations across three Latinx immigrant journey picture books. Event structure analysis defines specific events and how each how each event enables and leans into other events. The analysis uses the analytical tool of focalization where the viewer can be positioned to assume different viewing personas as either an observer or a participant, as well as picturebook codes of position and size, perspective, frame, line, and color.
