{"id":540,"date":"2009-08-30T05:02:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T05:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=540"},"modified":"2017-06-27T22:28:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T22:28:45","slug":"mixed-heritage-in-young-adult-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9780810859692\/Mixed-Heritage-in-Young-Adult-Literature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scarecrowpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Scarecrow Press, Inc.<\/a><br \/>\nMarch 2009<br \/>\n272 pages<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 0-8108-5969-6;\u00a0ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-5969-2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nancy Thalia Reynolds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9780810859692\/Mixed-Heritage-in-Young-Adult-Literature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/M\/08\/108\/9780810859692.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Mixed-heritage people are one of the fastest-growing groups in the United States, yet culturally they have been largely invisible, especially in young adult literature. Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature is a critical exploration of how mixed-heritage characters (those of mixed race, ethnicity, religion, and\/or adoption) and real-life people have been portrayed in young adult fiction and nonfiction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the first in-depth, broad-scope critical exploration of this subgenre of multicultural literature. Following an introduction to the topic, author Nancy Thalia Reynolds examines the portrayal of mixed-heritage characters in literary classics by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Fenimore_Cooper\" target=\"_self\">James Fenimore Cooper<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_twain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Twain<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zora_Neale_Hurston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zora Neale Hurston<\/a>\u2014staples of today&#8217;s high school English curriculum\u2014along with other important authors. It opens up the discussion of young-adult racial and ethnic identity in literature to recognize\u2014and focus on\u2014those whose heritage straddles boundaries. In this book teachers will find new tools to approach race, ethnicity, and family heritage in literature and in the classroom.\u00a0 This book also helps librarians find new criteria with which to evaluate young adult fiction and nonfiction with mixed-heritage characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature is a critical exploration of how mixed-heritage characters (those of mixed race, ethnicity, religion, and\/or adoption) and real-life people have been portrayed in young adult fiction and nonfiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1196,8,17,23,20],"tags":[78,149,148,20575,150],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-teaching","category-usa","tag-james-fenimore-cooper","tag-mark-twain","tag-nancy-thalia-reynolds","tag-the-scarecrow-press","tag-zora-neale-hurston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54316,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/54316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}