Philip Nel is director of the graduate program in children’s literature at Kansas State University. He is the author or coeditor of 11 books, the most recent of which is Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Philip Nel
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