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ERIC Number: EJ1270946
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 14
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1521-7779
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In Search of Mirrors: An Asian Critical Race Theory Content Analysis of Asian American Picturebooks from 2007 to 2017
Rodriguez, Noreen Naseem; Kim, Esther June
Journal of Children's Literature, v44 n2 p17-30 Fall 2018
A limited number of studies have examined Asian American children's literature over the last half century. While the selection and availability of this literature has increased substantially in the last two decades, many of these texts continue to perpetuate stereotypes (Morgan, 2012), such as the overachieving model minority (Loh-Hagen, 2014) and notions of Asian Americans as exotic foreigners (Pang, Colvin, Tran, & Barba, 1992; Roy, 2008), while failing to reflect the extraordinary diversity of Asian America. Most Asian American children's literature focuses on Chinese and Japanese American experiences (Yi, 2014; Yokota, 2009), which exacerbates the conflation of East Asian Americans with Asian Americans. Bringing together the various critiques, as well as accounting for more recent publications, the authors of this article conducted a critical content analysis of 21 Asian American picturebooks guided by this question: How are Asian Americans represented in popular children's literature published from 2007 to 2017?
Children's Literature Assembly. e-mail: info@childrensliteratureassembly.org; Web site: https://www.childrensliteratureassembly.org/journal.html
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California; Texas (Austin)
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