Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Steven T. Bickmore
PART I: CRITICAL FOUNDATION, ESTABLISHED THEMES, AND RECEPTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS
Chapter 1: Looking back to move forward: A Retrospective of the Coretta Scott King Award Deborah Taylor
Chapter 2: Themes and Critical Foundations of Early African American Authors of Young Adult Literature
Shanetia P. Clark
PART II: FOUNDING AUTHORS AND THEIR EARLY INTRODUCTION
Chapter 3: Walter Dean Myers: A Lifetime of Stories
Ngozi Onuora
Chapter 4: Virginia Hamilton, Liberation, and Bluish: Generating Acceptance and Empathy
Shanetia P. Clark and Steven T. Bickmore
Chapter 5: These Tears Are Real: Historical Representations in Julius Lester’s Day of Tears
Ruth McKoy Lowery and Cheryl Logan
Chapter 6: The Early Reception of Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Chris Crowe
PART III: FOUNDING AUTHORS, CURRENT REPUTATIONS, AND THEIR CONTINUED PRESENCE
Chapter 7: Poet of Harlem: The Truth, Text, and Legacy of Walter Dean Myers
M. Cathrene Connery
Chapter 8: Reading, Learning, and Telling Folklore through Virginia Hamilton’s Zeely
Nancy D. Tolson
Chapter 9:Julius Lester’s Nonfiction Presentation of Slavery in To Be a Slave
Steven T. Bickmore
Chapter 10: Racialized Constructions in the Stories by Mildred Taylor
Wanda Brooks and Desiree Cueto
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