{"id":2197,"date":"2009-10-17T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2013-01-13T16:10:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T16:10:02","slug":"why-are-people-different-multiracial-families-in-picture-books-and-the-dialogue-of-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2197","title":{"rendered":"Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/uni.2001.0037\" target=\"_blank\">Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/lion_and_the_unicorn\" target=\"_blank\">The Lion and the Unicorn<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/lion_and_the_unicorn\/toc\/uni25.3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 25, Number 3<\/a>, September 2001<br \/>\npages 412-426<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1080-6563<br \/>\nPrint ISSN: 0147-2593<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/uni.2001.0037\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/uni.2001.0037<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Karen Sands-O&#8217;Connor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The issue of race has often been contentious in children&#8217;s literature, from controversies over <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Twain\" target=\"_blank\">Twain<\/a>&#8216;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn\" target=\"_blank\">Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/a><\/em>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helen_Bannerman\" target=\"_blank\">Bannerman<\/a>&#8216;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Black_Sambo\" target=\"_blank\">Little Black Sambo<\/a><\/em>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ezra_Jack_Keats\" target=\"_blank\">Keats<\/a>&#8216;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Snowy_Day\" target=\"_blank\">The Snowy Day<\/a><\/em>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolivia.org\/nappyhair\/author.html\" target=\"_blank\">Herron&#8217;<\/a>s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolivia.org\/nappyhair\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nappy Hair<\/a><\/em>. How race is portrayed and who portrays it have been crucial for many critics. Violet J. Harris suggests this preoccupation with cultural authenticity, as she terms it, centers on &#8220;individual books and their portrayals of people of color, as well as the representation of specific aspects of their cultures such as values, customs, and family relationships&#8221; (40-41). Francis Wardle counters, &#8220;presenting the Black race and cultural group as a single, unified, world-wide entity is not only inaccurate, but denies the tremendous richness of economic, cultural, linguistic, national, political, social and religious diversity that exists in the world-wide Black community&#8221; (&#8220;Mixed-Race Unions&#8221; 200). This insistence on cultural authenticity poses even more problems when more than one culture is portrayed within a family, and it is perhaps for this reason that little has been written on the multiracial family as portrayed in literature&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Purchase the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.jhu.edu\/cgi-bin\/single_issue.cgi?url=%2Fjournals%2Flion_and_the_unicorn%2Fv025%2F25.3sands-oconnor.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference The Lion and the Unicorn Volume 25, Number 3, September 2001 pages 412-426 E-ISSN: 1080-6563 Print ISSN: 0147-2593 DOI: 10.1353\/uni.2001.0037 Karen Sands-O&#8217;Connor The issue of race has often been contentious in children&#8217;s literature, from controversies over Twain&#8216;s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,1196,8],"tags":[567,568,569],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-carolivia-herron","tag-karen-sands-oconnor","tag-the-lion-and-the-unicorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}