Mar 29, 2024  
Course Catalog 2021-2022 
    
Course Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

WGS 298 - Race & Ethnicity in Child Literature


Children’s literature offers a special space for considerations of identity. While a presumed homogeneity of that identity has often been a point of fervent pride, protest, counter-protest, and reimagining, race and ethnicity are as deeply interwoven with the subject of childhood as invocations of children have been to the political discourse surrounding race and ethnicity. This course engages that discourse by offering literary representations of young peoples in racialized contexts paired with critical vocabularies attuned to equity and social justice. Key children’s and adolescent texts include but are not limited to poetry, memoir, speculative fiction, and graphic novels. Critical thinking in the form of class discussion, academic writing, and multimodal production is anticipated.

Credits 1



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Cross-listed with ENG 298