Was the Cat in the Hat black? : (Record no. 137407)

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International Standard Book Number 019063507X
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Classification number PN 1009.5 .R32
Item number N47 2017
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Nel, Philip,
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245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Was the Cat in the Hat black? :
Remainder of title the hidden racism of children's literature, and the need for diverse books /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Philip Nel.
246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title Hidden racism of children's literature, and the need for diverse books
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York, NY :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Oxford University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2017
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Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2017
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Extent ix, 278 pages :
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Dimensions 22 cm
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Formatted contents note Introduction: Race, racism, and the cultures of childhood -- The strange career of The Cat in the Hat; or, Dr. Seuss's racial imagination -- How to read uncomfortably: Racism, affect, and classic children's books -- Whiteness, nostalgia, and fantastic flying books: William Joyce's racial erasures vs. Hurricane Katrina -- Don't judge a book by its color: The destructive fantasy of whitewashing (and vice-versa) -- Childhoods "outside the boundaries of imagination": Genre is the new Jim Crow -- Conclusion: A manifesto for anti-racist children's literature.
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Summary, etc. Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is structural: it's embedded in culture and in institutions. One of the places that racism hides -- and thus perhaps the best place to oppose it -- is books for young people. Philip Nel presents five serious critiques of the history and current state of children's literature tempestuous relationship with both implicit and explicit forms of racism. Nel examines topics both vivid -- such as The Cat in the Hat's roots in blackface minstrelsy -- and more opaque, like how the children's book industry can perpetuate structural racism via whitewashed covers even while making efforts to increase diversity. Rooted in research, Nel delves into years of literary criticism and recent sociological data in order to show a better way forward. Though much of what is proposed here could be endlessly argued, the knowledge that what we learn in childhood imparts both subtle and explicit lessons about whose lives matter is not debatable. The text concludes with a proposal of actions everyone -- reader, author, publisher, scholar, citizen -- can take to fight the biases and prejudices that infect children's literature.
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Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-262) and index.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Children's literature, American
General subdivision History and criticism.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Race in literature.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Racism in literature.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element LITERARY CRITICISM
General subdivision Children's & Young Adult Literature.
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    Library of Congress Classification     Storms Research Center Storms Research Center Main Collection 10/28/2025   PN 1009.5 .R32 N47 2017 98652154 10/28/2025 21.97 10/28/2025 Book