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Cultural Dexterity Through Multiracial Nonfiction
Reading and Teaching with Diverse Nonfiction Children's Books; Representations and Possibilities (2021)
  • Amina Chaudhri, Northeastern Illinois University
Abstract
Nonfiction literature about multiracial experiences is limited to books about diverse families and biographies. In this chapter, a small corpus of titles is analyzed using a lens of cultural dexterity to highlight the pedagogical possibilities embedded in quality nonfiction about multiraciality. While readers, book creators, and publishers may view the concept of mixed families with dissonance, the books both highlight and counter this with depictions of confident and loving multiracial families. Ultimately, this selection of titles can encourage readers to consider their own partial lenses, the ideologies they may have absorbed, and to consider the construct of racial identity in general, and multiracial identity in particular.
Keywords
  • children's literature,
  • nonfiction,
  • multiraction identity,
  • mixed race identity
Publication Date
2021
Editor
Thomas Crisp, Suzanne M. Knezek, Roberta Price Gardner
Publisher
National Council of Teachers of English
Citation Information
Amina Chaudhri. "Cultural Dexterity Through Multiracial Nonfiction" ChampaignReading and Teaching with Diverse Nonfiction Children's Books; Representations and Possibilities (2021)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/amina-chaudhri/7/