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Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015

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Authors:
  1. Karen Sands-O'Connor

    1. Buffalo State College , Buffalo, USA

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  • Details the attempts by both mainstream and independent publishers to address a Black British audience
  • Spans a crucial 50-year period
  • Uses a historical approach to investigate the motivations behind both mainstream and independent publishing decisions

Part of the book series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (CRACL)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: We’re Here Because You Were There—The Beginnings of Publishing for a Black British Audience

    • Karen Sands-O’Connor
    Pages 1-25

  3. Postwar Education, Reading Schemes, and Race: Leila Berg and Nippers

    • Karen Sands-O’Connor
    Pages 27-51

  4. Britain, Black Empowerment and Bogle L’Ouverture: Independent Black Publishing of the 1960s–1980s

    • Karen Sands-O’Connor
    Pages 53-82

  5. The Multicultural Education Movement, Anti-Racism and Publishing for Children, 1980–1995

    • Karen Sands-O’Connor
    Pages 83-112

  6. New Models for Engagement: Independent Publishing After 1990

    • Karen Sands-O’Connor
    Pages 113-134

  7. Stephen Lawrence, Institutional Racism and Mary Seacole in the National Curriculum

    • Karen Sands-O’Connor
    Pages 135-155

  8. Prizes, Awards and Publishing for a Black British Audience

    • Karen Sands-O’Connor
    Pages 157-181

  9. Conclusion: We’re Still Here Because You Were There—So Now What?

    • Karen Sands-O’Connor
    Pages 183-189

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 191-197
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About this book

This book examines a critical period in British children’s publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK. Taking a historical approach that includes education acts, Black protest, community publishing and children’s literature prizes, the study investigates the motivation behind both independent and mainstream publishing firm decisions to produce books for a specifically Black British audience. Beginning with a consideration of early reading schemes that incorporated Black and Asian characters, the book continues with a history of one of the earliest presses to publish for children, Bogle L’Ouverture. Other chapters look at the influence of community-based and independent presses, the era of multiculturalism and anti-racism, the effect of racially-motivated violence on children’s publishing, and the dubious benefit of awards for Black British publishing. The volume will appealto children’s literature scholars, librarians, teachers, education-policy makers and Black British historians.

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“Sands-O’Connor has made a brilliant contribution, and her study is bound to become a reference point for any further exploration into British publishing for a diverse market.” (Susanne Reichl, libri liberorum, Vol. 20 (51), 2019)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Buffalo State College , Buffalo, USA

    Karen Sands-O'Connor

About the author

Karen Sands-O’Connor is Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo State, USA, and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Newcastle University, UK. She publishes widely on race, racism, and children’s literature, most notably in Soon Come Home to this Island: West Indians in British Children’s Literature (2008) and her edited collection with Marietta Frank, Internationalism in Children’s Series (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

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