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‘What could I say?’ A critical discourse analysis of the construction of race in children’s literature

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Pages 21-46 | Published online: 04 Feb 2007

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Anna Falkner. (2023) Racialized space and discourse in the picture books of Ezra Jack Keats. The Journal of Social Studies Research 42:2, pages 171-184.
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Tina Keller & Judith K. Franzak. (2015) When Names and Schools Collide: Critically Analyzing Depictions of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children Negotiating Their Names in Picture Books. Children's Literature in Education 47:2, pages 177-190.
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Nana Osei-Kofi & Lisette E. Torres. (2015) College admissions viewbooks and the grammar of gender, race, and STEM. Cultural Studies of Science Education 10:2, pages 527-544.
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Jani L. Barker. (2010) Racial Identification and Audience in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and the Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963. Children's Literature in Education 41:2, pages 118-145.
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