Children
He is the father of four sons and the author of many award winning books including "I Am Every Good Thing"
Who is Derrick Barnes
What is 1965
This is our approach to listening to and finding the joy in reading or listening to a story
What is an aesthetic read?
Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop's analogy of books to these three things is often cited but rarely do people know who developed this idea
What is multicultural literature as windows, mirrors and sliding glass doors?
This overrated football team is going to lose to Notre Dame this weekend.
What is The Ohio State University.
The title of our core text "Free Within Ourselves" comes from which poet?
Who is Langston Hughes?
This type of message overpowers other ideas and are believed by many, simply because they are more prominent and perpetuated by groups in power.
What is dominant or grand narrative?
This first Caldecott winner that featured an African American child in a positive way, doing "every day" things is titled and was written and illustrated by this author.
What is The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats?
Post slavery, these were the two most important pursuits of those who had been enslaved
What is finding family and becoming literate
This is the title of Notre Dame's alma mater song
What is Notre Dame Our Mother?
These are three ways to read a text (hint they each "center" a different person or thing)
What is reading behind the text (author centered), reading within the text (text centered) and reading in front of the text (reader centered)
This Chicago librarian suggested three questions to ask when reading children's literature. Who is the librarian and what are the three questions about? (100 points per question - does not have to be verbatim)
Who is Charlemae Hill Rollins and what is:
Are the people portrayed in the book natural or real: or are they presented from a distorted point of view?
Does the book set up standards of superiority or feelings of inferiority in the minds of the children who read it
Is the book free from derisive names and epithets that would offend"
This "institution" was responsible for the most Black publications. For an extra 100 points each, name the most well known of these institutions and the first Black newspaper.
What is the Black church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Freedom's Journal?
This first magazine intended for African American children was called this, ran for this long and was created by this leading scholar.
What is The Brownies' Book, 2 years and W. E. B. DuBois?
Who is Arna Bontemps and what is "The Story of the Negro"?
There are many examples of institutionalized racism - this is the most impactful. Name the form that impacts the most people as well as two more.
What is education? Others can include housing, banking, criminal justice system, public health.
This theory, of seeing one's self through one's own eyes and seeing one's self through the eyes of the world was developed by this scholar and can be found in this book.
What is "double consciousness", W. E. B. DuBois, and The Souls of Black Folk?
This Italian scholar developed this theory to mean "dominance of one group over another, often supported by legitimate norms and ideas". Who is the author and what is the theory?
Who is Antonio Gramsci and what is hegemony?
This poet is considered the "Black Princess of Poetry" and wanted to write on topics and for audiences beyond those favored by Black Arts critics.
Who is Nikki Giovanni?
What is the comic relief, lazy, mischievous, not intelligent, odd, quaint
Before we had printed books, enslaved Africans used this form of storytelling to serve the following purposes (100 points per example)
What is oral and for these reasons: to build community, to entertain, and to inform and instruct each other and their children? May include: socialize children and helping them survive a hostile environment
This scholar is known as "the father of modern Black history", was the son of former slaves who earned a PhD from Harvard, established Negro History Week, and is best known for this book.
Who is Carter G. Woodson and "The Miseducation of the Negro"?
This type of book refers to literature in which "pictures and written text are interdependent". "I Am Enough" by this author would fit the form.
What is picture book and who is Grace Byers?
This book by this author was celebrated as the first of its kind to include Black English and a true-to-life story in a simple story that reflects children's range of emotions.
What is "Stevie" by John Steptoe?
This organization sought to fight for change by promoting authors and literature that celebrated African American people and experiences. They also ran contests for authors and did this to support them.
What is the Council on Interracial Books for Children and published winning manuscripts?