{"id":50131,"date":"2016-11-23T14:54:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50131"},"modified":"2017-03-03T16:39:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T16:39:39","slug":"passive-voice-active-prejudice-mary-seacole-in-childrens-literature-and-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50131","title":{"rendered":"Passive Voice, Active Prejudice: Mary Seacole in Children\u2019s Literature and\u00a0Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passive Voice, Active Prejudice: Mary Seacole in Children\u2019s Literature and\u00a0Media<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

theracetoread: Children\u2019s Literature and Issues of Race<\/a>
\n2016-10-20<\/p>\n

Karen Sands-O\u2019Connor<\/strong><\/a>, Professor
\nEnglish Department
\nBuffalo State, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n[David] Harewood\u2019s<\/a> ITV<\/a> programme celebrates the new statue of Mary Seacole<\/a> in London<\/a>\u2013but not everyone is pleased<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This week, Britain\u2019s ITV<\/a> showed a programme on Mary Seacole<\/a> entitled \u201cIn the Shadow of Mary Seacole<\/a>.\u201d In some ways, the programme could have been titled, \u201cMary Seacole in the Shadow of British Racism.\u201d Many people who initially celebrated the fact that ITV was telling the story of the woman labeled \u201cThe Greatest Black Briton\u201d in 2004 were dismayed to find that the programme was put on the schedule at 10:40 pm. Others complained that the programme focused on the opinions of white historians. Indeed, it seemed that most, though not all, of Seacole\u2019s defenders in the programme were non-historians: actors, comedians, nurses. Unfortunately, none of this is new when it comes to Mary Seacole\u2014and children\u2019s books about the Jamaican Crimean War<\/a> nurse are no exception…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, Britain\u2019s ITV showed a programme on Mary Seacole entitled \u201cIn the Shadow of Mary Seacole.\u201d In some ways, the programme could have been titled, \u201cMary Seacole in the Shadow of British Racism.\u201d Many people who initially celebrated the fact that ITV was telling the story of the woman labeled \u201cThe Greatest Black Briton\u201d in 2004 were dismayed to find that the programme was put on the schedule at 10:40 pm. Others complained that the programme focused on the opinions of white historians. Indeed, it seemed that most, though not all, of Seacole\u2019s defenders in the programme were non-historians: actors, comedians, nurses. Unfortunately, none of this is new when it comes to Mary Seacole\u2014and children\u2019s books about the Jamaican Crimean War nurse are no exception…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,459,1196,8,10,25],"tags":[25483,25484,568,3692,20883,20882],"class_list":["post-50131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-women","tag-david-harewood","tag-itv","tag-karen-sands-oconnor","tag-mary-seacole","tag-theracetoread","tag-theracetoread-childrens-literature-and-issues-of-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50131","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=50131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52022,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50131\/revisions\/52022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}