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Direct linkBrooks, Wanda – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
This article describes a qualitative research study that explored how a middle school case-study class read and responded to "culturally conscious" African American children's books (Sims, 1982, p. 49). First, I relied on literary analyses conducted mainly by Sims (1982) and Harris (1995) to identify African American textual features contained in…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Books, Childrens Literature, Theories
