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Racism in Contemporary African American Children’s and Young Adult Literature

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As a theoretical and analytical tool, Critical Race Theory is certainly a terrain unfamiliar and foreign to the field of literary studies. This chapter is thus set up with an aim to help the reader grasp its basic tenets and realise its potentiality in literary analyses. The chapter also discusses relevant literature surrounding the issue of internalised racism, including intra-racial racism, provides a brief historical overview of skin colour stratification in America and introduces primary children’s and young adult texts used in the book.

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Panlay, S. (2016). Internalised Racism and Critical Race Theory. In: Racism in Contemporary African American Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42893-2_2

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