Healthcare in Children’s Media, edited by Naomi Lesley & Sarah Layzell
Song of the Land: Celebrating the Works of Mildred D. Taylor, edited by Sarah Layzell, Tammy L. Mielke & Michelle H. Martin
Song of the Land Table of Contents
Poetic Tribute: An Oriki for Mildred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y. Falami Devoe
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michelle H. Martin
Poetic Tribute: Homemade Love: Sower. Weaver. Receiver. . . . . . . . . .Raen Parker Washington
Part 1: The Self: Intersectionality and Insider/Outsider Perspectives
The Story in the Silence: Reading Between the Lines in Mildred D. Taylor’s Logan Family Saga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latrice Ferguson
“I Wanted to Write a Truthful History”: Intersections of Critical Race Theory and Gender Schema in Mildred D. Taylor’s Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Shelly Shaffer, Melissa Bedford, and Ann Van Wig
Beyond the Veil: In Search of Duboisian Double Consciousness in the Works of Mildred D. Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Helen Bond
Racial Education and Audience in All the Days Past, All the Days to Come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jani L. Barker
Part 2: The Self: Reimagining the Logans
Re(cover)y of the Logan Family Saga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ngozi Onuora and Sabrina Carnesi
Re/figuring the Child-Signifier and Agency in the Film Adaptation of Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry . . . . . . . . . . . .Devika Mehra
How the Logans Travel to the East: Exploring the Persian Translations of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, The Friendship, and The Well . . . . . . . Bahar Eshraq
Part 3: The World Outside: White Supremacy, Justice, and the Land
White Supremacy and the Black Storyteller’s Narrative Unveiling . . . . . Susan Browne and Wanda Brooks
“Don’t Speak for the Trees—Listen”: Mildred D. Taylor’s Song of the Trees for Environmental Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lauren Rizzuto
Contested Space: The Black Agrarian Tradition in Mildred D. Taylor’s The Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Cardinali Cormier
Her Bandage Hides Two Festering Sores That Once Perhaps Were Eyes: “Justice” in the Logan Family Saga and To Kill a Mockingbird . . . . . . .Catharine Kane
Part 4: The World Beyond: Legacy, Activism, and Education
Disrupting Mavericks: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, The Hate U Give, and Critical Race Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annette Wannamaker
Care Ethics and Activism in Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give . . . . . . . . . . . . Bryanna Somers
Blending Fact and Fiction: All the Days Past, All the Days to Come as a Novel of Black Resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jennifer Ansbach
Short non-fiction
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