ERIC Number: EJ1448046
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Publication Date: 2024-Dec
Pages: 23
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The Elevation of Black Girls' Hair: An Analysis of Visual Representations in Children's Picturebooks
Reka C. Barton; Darielle Blevins; Marva Cappello
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, v24 n4 p816-838 2024
This article utilizes Black girlhood as a framework in a critical multimodal qualitative inquiry to explore the complexities of representations of Black girls' hair, in picturebooks. Using a data corpus of 55 picturebooks published between 2010-2020, the authors analyzed the multimodal messages embedded in the initial introductions of Black girl protagonists. The findings suggest that contemporary children's literature represents a broad array of Black girls' hair, even when the central message is not about hair, denoting the importance of this cultural representation in assertions of identity. Findings suggest that the theme of elevation was demonstrated across the corpus, and was further expressed in the subthemes of; (1) salience of hair, (2) physical elevation of hair, and (3) importance of hair.
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Human Body, Picture Books, Illustrations, Cultural Influences, African American Culture, Racial Identification
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