Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ590657
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1999
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Images of Black Females in Children's/Adolescent Contemporary Realistic Fiction.
Paul, Dierdre Glenn
MultiCultural Review, v8 n2 p34-41,59-65 Jun 1999
Examines the messages transmitted to black girls through books for children and adolescents commonly introduced in school. Concludes that children's and adolescents' books do reflect a trickle-down effect of images of black females and poor white females that appear in adult books and films. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Children, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Fiction, Low Income, Stereotypes, Whites
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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