Library & Information Science, Course 262: Resources for Young Adults.
Dr. David Loertscher

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• Good Stuff for Teens in the Multicultural Arena (w1r)

• Multiculturalism - Professional Reading (w10a) - an analysis by cultural group from CCBC

• The State of Multicultural Literature (w10e) - an analysis from CCBC, 1997, 1998

General Sources

• For a wide variety of resources, publications, try City Lore: The New York Center for Urban Folk Culture.

• Book (w10r.pdf): Kruse, Ginny Moore, Kathleen T. Horning and Megan Schliesman. Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults: A Selected Listing of Books by and About People of Color. Volume Two: 1991-1996. Cooperative Children's Book Center, 1997. (http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) - An excellent annotated bibliography. Presented here are a few pages listing YA resources.

• Web site. Check out Multicultural Pavilion at the University of Maryland for a host of elementary and secondary resources. (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/home.html)

Latino Resources

• Isabel Schon has been creating bibliographies of Spanish Language children's and YA resources for years. Look for her annual bibliographies published by Scarcrow Press. Here is included a brief column (w10j.PDF)by Isabel published in Booklist, May 1, 1997.

• Speech (w10n.pdf): Guevara, Susan. "Pura Belpre Award Acceptance Speech for Illustration 1995," Youth Services in Libraries, Spring 1997, p. 273-75. Guevara discusses artistic inspiration in the process of illustrating Gary Soto's Chato's Kitchen."

• Professional article (w10s.pdf): Larson, Jeanette and Carolina G. Martinez. "Hispanic_Kids@Library.net: Internet Resources for Latino Youth," Youth Services in Libraries, Spring, 1998, p. 243-51. - a guide to the best for young people and their families.

• Student project: (w10t.html) Gary Soto by Sue Tiiesiera

Jewish-American Heritage

• Judaism 101 covers all types of information about Jewish customs, beliefs, and religious rituals.

• Passover on the Net provides everything you need to know about attending a seder.

Student Projects

• Holocaust Bibliography (w10k.html) by Mary Auril
• Holocaust Literature (w10v.html) by Roxanne A. Ansolabehere

Native Americans

• Professional article (w10l.pdf): Bader, Barbara. "'They Shall Not Wither': John Bierhorst's Quiet Crusade for Native American Literature," The Horn Book Magazine, May/June, 1997, p. 268-81. - Bierhorst, an Anglo, married an illustrator and has spent a career editing and publishing Native American tales from both North and South America.

• Professional article (w10m.pdf): Barclay, Donald A. "Native Americans in Books from the Past," The Horn Book Magazine, September/October, 1996, p. 559-65. - Barclay looks across time at stereotyping of Native Americans as represented in children's books and struggles for answers about fair treatment.

• Website: Native American Books. Native American Perspectives.

• Student project: (w10x.html) Native Americans by Linda Hodgin.

African Americans

• Bibliography (w10p.pdf) Estes, Sally. "the Civil Rights Movement Remembered," Booklist, Feb. 15, 1998, p. 998-99. - A short annotated bibliography of some works for young adults.

• Book (w10q.pdf): King, Casey and Linda Barrett Osborne. Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen. Knopf, 1997. - An amazing book of kid interviews with participants who put their lives on the line. Here is presented a sample interview. A must purchase for children and YA collections.

• Student project (w10w.html) Coretta Scott King Award by Dorothy Nowroozian

Asians

• Student project: (w10u.html) Asian Resources for Young Adults by Warren Wright.
• Student project: (w10y.html) Asian Literature by Joyce Belanger.

Americans of Japanese Ancestry

• Student project: (w10l.html) Pat Skjervheim created a bibliography of materials for children and teens of Japanese Ancestry from the point of view of Japanese Americans living in the Hawaiian Islands during WWII.

Filipino-Americans

• Student project: (w10z.html) Filipino-American Literature by Leonardo Cortez.

Teaching Ideas

• Professional article (w10o.pdf): Bontempo, Barbara T. "Exploring Prejudice in Young Adult Literature through Drama and Role Play," The ALAN Review, Spring, 1995, p. 31-33. - In-class role pays can serve to create multi-cultural undersstanding on an emotional as well as intellectual plan\e.

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