Brown Gold

Brown Gold
Author: Michelle Martin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2004-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113594914X

Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's books about black life were hard to find — if, indeed, young black readers and their parents could even gain entry into the bookstores and libraries. But today, in the "Golden Age" of African-American children's picturebooks, one can find a wealth of titles ranging from Happy to be Nappy to Black is Brown is Tan. In this book, Michelle Martin explores how the genre has evolved from problematic early works such as Epaminondas that were rooted in minstrelsy and stereotype, through the civil rights movement, and onward to contemporary celebrations of blackness. She demonstrates the cultural importance of contemporary favorites through keen historical analysis — scrutinizing the longevity and proliferation of the Coontown series and Ten Little Niggers books, for example — that makes clear how few picturebooks existed in which black children could see themselves and their people positively represented even up until the 1960s. Martin also explores how children's authors and illustrators have addressed major issues in black life and history including racism, the civil rights movement, black feminism, major historical figures, religion, and slavery. Brown Gold adds new depth to the reader's understanding of African-American literature and culture, and illuminates how the round, dynamic characters in these children's novels, novellas, and picturebooks can put a face on the past, a face with which many contemporary readers can identify.

Naturally Tan

Naturally Tan
Author: Tan France
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250208823

A USA Today Hottest Book of the Summer for 2019! A Best Nonfiction Book for 2019 in Woman's Day! One of Hello Giggles's "Most Anticipated Books of 2019 to Add to Your Reading List"! “Just when I thought I knew everything about Tan, he hits me with this. His story is so heartwarming, and wickedly funny.” —Antoni Porowski In this heartfelt, funny, and touching memoir, one of the stars of Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning smash-hit Queer Eye reveals how an Englishman raised in a traditionally religious home became a fashion icon—and the first openly gay, South Asian man on television—simply by being Naturally Tan. In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France tells his origin story for the first time. With his trademark wit, humor, and radical compassion, Tan reveals what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional South Asian family, as one of the few people of color in South Yorkshire, England. He illuminates his winding journey of coming of age, finding his voice (and style!), and marrying the love of his life—a Mormon cowboy from Salt Lake City. From one of the stars of Netflix’s runaway hit show Queer Eye, Naturally Tan is so much more than fashion dos and don’ts—though of course Tan can’t resist steering everyone away from bootcut jeans! Full of candid observations about U.S. and U.K. cultural differences, what he sees when you slide into his DMs, celebrity encounters, and the behind-the-scenes realities of “reality TV,” Naturally Tan gives us Tan’s unique perspective on the happiness to be found in being yourself. In Tan's own words, “The book is meant to spread joy, personal acceptance, and most of all understanding. Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will be.”

Tan to Tamarind

Tan to Tamarind
Author: Malathi Michelle Iyengar
Publisher: Children's Book Press
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780892392278

Poems in celebration of brown skin color.

I Am Tan

I Am Tan
Author: Michele Rose
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2017-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781513622552

A bi-racial boy named Christian, spends an interesting day learning about race, color and stereotypes. By the end of the day, he learns to embrace all of who he is. He knows that the world is full of white, black, brown, red and yellow people, but he also sees that there are many mixed children like him, who are in between these basic colors.

Brown Like Me

Brown Like Me
Author: Noelle Lamperti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9781892281036

A little girl named Noelle tells how she likes to go looking for things that are brown like her.

Black All Around!

Black All Around!
Author: Patricia Hubbell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN: 9781584300489

An African American girl contemplates the many wonderful black things around her, from the inside of a pocket, where surprises hide, to the cozy night where there is no light.

Slow Dance Heartbreak Blues

Slow Dance Heartbreak Blues
Author: Arnold Adoff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1995-08-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

"Adoff addresses his poetry to modern, urban teens in a gritty, hip-hop style. He manages to create poetry from the universal concerns of love and loneliness, the specific teen concerns of acne and braces, and unpleasant realities like selling and taking drugs."--Booklist. "Telling, recognizable, and readable....Intriguing."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

All the Colors of the Race

All the Colors of the Race
Author: Arnold Adoff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1982-02
Genre: Children's poetry
ISBN:

A collection of poems written from the point of view of a child with a black mother and a white father.

black is brown is tan

black is brown is tan
Author: Arnold Adoff
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2004-01-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0064436446

Brown-skinned momma, the color of chocolate milk and coffee pumpkin pie, whose face gets ginger red when she puffs and yells the children into bed. White-skinned daddy, not white like milk or snow, lighter than brown, With pinks and tiny tans, whose face gets tomato red when he puffs and yells their children into bed. Children who are all the colors of the race, growing up happy in a house full of love. This is the way it is for them; this is the way they are, but the joy they feel extends to every reader of this book. Black is brown is tan is a story poem about being, a beautiful true song about a family delighting in each other and in the good things of the earth.

The Best in Children's Books

The Best in Children's Books
Author: Zena Sutherland
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 572
Release: 1980-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780226780597

Includes indexes.