Blackface Minstrelsy Resources: Minstrelsy in Childhood
This guide has been developed by The Center for American Music to provide resources for researching blackface minstrelsy and other demonstrations of blackface performance.
WARNING: This Libguide contains images and text from blackface minstrelsy, a theatrical genre that involved demeaning caricatures of Black people rooted in racism and white supremacy.
About Race and Children's Literature
Is the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books by Philip Nel
Call Number: Available Online
ISBN: 019063507X
Publication Date: 2017
White Supremacy in Children’s Literature : Characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900 by Donnarae MacCann
Call Number: PS 173 .N4 M33 1998 AND Available Online