The Schubert Center for Child Studies will host Michelle Martin, the Augusta Baker Chair and professor in childhood literacy at the University of South Carolina, for a lecture, titled “Brown Gold: African-American Children’s Literature as a Genre of Resistance.”
Martin will present her talk Thursday, Feb. 18, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, ballroom A.
In 1969, Langston Hughes’ Black Misery, a children’s book that speaks candidly about the discrimination and misfortunes that African-American children face daily, was published posthumously. Considered the “fathers” of contemporary African-American children’s literature, Hughes and Arna Bontemps wrote not just for black children, but for all children, and set a precedent of resistance within the genre.
Martin will trace the tradition of resistance in African-American children’s literature, beginning with early publications such as the Brownies’ Book Magazine up through several recent works of African-American children’s and young adult literature. Implications for teaching and creating opportunities for building literacy in childhood and adolescence will be discussed.
Registration for this lecture is available online.The Schubert Center for Child Studies will host Michelle Martin, the Augusta Baker Chair and professor in childhood literacy at the University of South Carolina, for a lecture, titled “Brown Gold: African-American Children’s Literature as a Genre of Resistance.”
Martin will present her talk Thursday, Feb. 18, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, ballroom A.
In 1969, Langston Hughes’ Black Misery, a children’s book that speaks candidly about the discrimination and misfortunes that African-American children face daily, was published posthumously. Considered the “fathers” of contemporary African-American children’s literature, Hughes and Arna Bontemps wrote not just for black children, but for all children, and set a precedent of resistance within the genre.
Martin will trace the tradition of resistance in African-American children’s literature, beginning with early publications such as the Brownies’ Book Magazine up through several recent works of African-American children’s and young adult literature. Implications for teaching and creating opportunities for building literacy in childhood and adolescence will be discussed.
Registration for this lecture is available online.