Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Childrens Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books Nel Philip
Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Childrens Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books Nel Philip Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise…
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Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Childrens Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books Nel Philip
Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. One of the places that racism hides-and thus perhaps the best place to oppose it-is books for young people.Was the Cat in the Hat Black? A significant reason racism endures is because it is structural: it's embedded in culture and in institutions.
The book fearlessly examines topics both vivid-such as The Cat in the Hat's roots in blackface minstrelsy-and more opaque, like how the children's book industry can perpetuate structural racism via whitewashed covers even while making efforts to increase diversity. presents five serious critiques of the history and current state of children's literature tempestuous relationship with both implicit and explicit forms of racism. Rooted in research yet written with a lively, crackling