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Michelle Pagni Stewart is Associate Professor of English at Mt. San Jacinto College.

Yvonne Atkinson is Associate Professor of English at Mt. San Jacinto College.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Do Dick and Jane Still Live Here? Reading Children'sLiterature as Ethnic Literature	p. 1
American Indian Literature	p. 9
Listening to the Loon: On Finding the Ideas for My Books	p. 11
Survival through Stories: An Introduction to Indian Literatures	p. 17
Oral Narrative and Ojibwa Story Cycles in Louise Erdrich's: Birchbark House and Game of Silence	p. 29
Alive and Well and Reclaiming Their Cultural Voice: Third Generation Native American Children's Literature	p. 45
African American Literature	p. 63
The Cadence of Language: An Interview with Julius Lester	p. 65
"Way Down in the Jungle Deep, the Lion Stepped on the Monkey's Feet": An Introduction to African American Literature	p. 71
Trauma and National Identity in Haitian-American Young Adult Literature	p. 83
For All My Children, or Approaching African American Children's Picture Books	p. 99
Asian American Literature	p. 115
On Finding a Home	p. 117
Foreigners Within: An Introduction to Asian American Literature	p. 123
Acts of "Desicreation": Urban Space and South Asian American Identity in Tanuja Desai Hidier's Born Confused	p. 135
Examining History: Representing War in Asian American Autobiographies for Children	p. 147
Latinalo Literature	p. 163
Writing on Violence and Healing for Young Audiences: An Interview with Rigoberto González	p. 165
Art, Activism and Community: An Introduction to Latina/o Literature	p. 171
Conflicting Inclinations: Luis J. Rodríguez's Picture Books for Children	p. 191
Reading Trauma and Violence in U.S. Latina/o Children's Literature	p. 205
Sources for Further Study	p. 227
Notes on Contributors	p. 241
Index	p. 245
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