Katharine Capshaw is professor of English and affiliate in Africana studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the coeditor of Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900 (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) and the author of Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) and Children’s Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (Indiana University Press, 2004). She is working on a book on Black children’s theater of the 1970s.
Katharine Capshaw
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Writing on Public Books
Digging up Whiteness
We may imagine that young people are innocent of the implications of race and class in American culture, that they can grow up in a kind of bubble of protection, safely insulated from the vexed and terrible realities of injustice. But young people know better. Children see race as a category before they learn to […]
