Katharine Capshaw, Ph.D.
A professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut
Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900 Children’s Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
Mildred Taylor’s Logan family series
I am interested in the history of civil rights efforts in America, and Taylor’s novels offer a window on Black family life in the south under segregation, before the protests and demonstrations of the 1950s and 1960s. A moving storyteller, Taylor is able to balance subtle character development with truly gripping plots; and since her…
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