Why does no one in my books look like me? : Tobe and ongoing questions about race, representation, and identity / edited by Ashli Quesinberry Stokes.

Other author Stokes, Ashli Quesinberry, editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationCharlotte, NC : UNC Charlotte Center for the Study of the New South, [2018]
Copyright Date©2018
Descriptionx, 95 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Contents Introduction to the Tobe Book Club experience / Nancy A. Gutierrez -- Tobe: The Center for the Study of the New South, Charlotte Teachers Institute, and a remarkable event / Scott Gartlan and Ashli Q. Stokes -- Introducing Tobe to new audiences / Benjamin Filene -- Book club discussion questions and essay overview -- Participants by discussion table -- Essay 1: Why this book?: Authorship, genre, and reader reception in Tobe / Janaka B. Lewis -- Essay 2: Tobe: reflections on race, representation, and identity / Jennifer Woods Parker -- Essay 3: Tobe or to be: a good and noble idea meets rural realities in 1930s North Carolina / Richard A. Lancaster -- Essay 4: The search for identity: exploring representations of Black culture through Tobe / Anthony Ellis -- Essay 5: Illustrations or documentation? / Micah Cash -- Essay 6: Reflections: memory, representation, and change / Kyra A. Kietrys -- Essay 7: Tobe: race, representation, identity, and a need "to be" / Debra C. Smith -- Essay 8: Tobe, Dick and Jane: rereading the American primer / Cheryl Butler-Brayboy -- Essay 9: In search of a better mirror: race, representation, and identity / Deborah Jung -- Essay 10: Tobe: perspectives and themes / Tisha Greene.
General note"An essay collection compiled from the Center for the Study of the New South and Charlotte Teachers Institute First Annual Book Club Experience."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Issued in other formPrint version: Why does no one in my books look like me? Charlotte, NC : UNC Charlotte Center for the Study of the New South, [2018] 9781469641683
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