Table of Contents:
  • "Hey, Who's the Kid with the Green Umbrella?": a Re-evaluation of Little Black Sambo and the Black-a-moor
  • From Ten Little Niggers to Afro-Bets: Images of Blackness in Picture Books for Young Readers, 1870s to 2000s
  • The Influence of the Black Arts Movement on African American Children's Picture Books
  • Pushing the Boundaries: The Coretta Scott King Award Picture Books
  • From Margin to Center: African American Artistic Legacies Shaping the Genre
  • Historical America through the Eyes of the Black Child
  • "Just Build Me a Cabin the Corner of Glory Land": Depictions of Heaven in African American Children's Picture Books
  • "Ain't I Fine?": Black Modes of Discourse in Contemporary African American Children's Picture Books
  • "Why Are We Reading This Stuff?": A Pedagogy of Teaching African American Children's Picture Books.