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Title: THE PROGRESSION OF AGENCY OF THE FEMALE ROLE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Author: Prysiazniuk, Stephanie
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Children's literature
Description: This thesis will analyze four American children’s novels written during the mid to latter part of the nineteen century and demonstrate how a progression of agency of the female role took shape in girls’ fiction during this period in history. With ...

Title: Why does no one in my books look like me? Tobe and ongoing questions about race, representation, and identity
Author: Stokes, Quesinberry Ashli
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Black people--Race identity, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Description: Originally published in 1939, Tobe is a children's book portraying the daily lives of an African American boy and his siblings on a small farm in rural North Carolina. The book was written by a white woman, Stella Sharpe Gentry, and illustrated by...

Title: Windows and mirrors : a content analysis of diversity in the Common Core Text Exemplars
Author: Romney, Kelsey M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Multiculturalism
Description: As diversity in the United States student population increases, children’s literature should be reflective of that growing diversity. A descriptive content analysis was conducted to analyze the gender and racial diversity of the main characters/pe...