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Images of Black Females in Children's/Adolescent Contemporary Realistic Fiction

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)

• Author/Creator: Paul, Dierdre Glenn
• Date Published: Jun
• Journal/Secondary Title: MultiCultural Review
• Number: 2
• Volume: 8
• Year: 1999

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Educators
• Subject: Blacks
• Subject: Children
• Subject: Childrens Literature
• Subject: Females
• Subject: Stereotypes

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