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Why does no one in my books look like me? : Tobe and ongoing questions about race, representation, and identity / edited by Ashli Quesinberry Stokes.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sharpe, Stella Gentry. Tobe--Criticism and interpretation.
- Sharpe, Stella Gentry.
- Race in literature.
- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- x, 95 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlotte, NC : UNC Charlotte Center for the Study of the New South, [2018]
- Contents:
- Introduction to the Tobe Book Club experience / Nancy A. Gutierrez
- Tobe: The Center for the Study of the New South, Charlotte Teachers Institute, and a remarkable event / Scott Gartlan and Ashli Q. Stokes
- Introducing Tobe to new audiences / Benjamin Filene
- Book club discussion questions and essay overview
- Participants by discussion table
- Essay 1: Why this book?: Authorship, genre, and reader reception in Tobe / Janaka B. Lewis
- Essay 2: Tobe: reflections on race, representation, and identity / Jennifer Woods Parker
- Essay 3: Tobe or to be: a good and noble idea meets rural realities in 1930s North Carolina / Richard A. Lancaster
- Essay 4: The search for identity: exploring representations of Black culture through Tobe / Anthony Ellis
- Essay 5: Illustrations or documentation? / Micah Cash
- Essay 6: Reflections: memory, representation, and change / Kyra A. Kietrys
- Essay 7: Tobe: race, representation, identity, and a need "to be" / Debra C. Smith
- Essay 8: Tobe, Dick and Jane: rereading the American primer / Cheryl Butler-Brayboy
- Essay 9: In search of a better mirror: race, representation, and identity / Deborah Jung
- Essay 10: Tobe: perspectives and themes / Tisha Greene.
- Notes:
- "An essay collection compiled from the Center for the Study of the New South and Charlotte Teachers Institute First Annual Book Club Experience"--Title page.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781469641683
- 1469641682
- OCLC:
- 1005537784
- Publisher Number:
- 99977124104
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