African American Children's Literature and the Quilting Trope
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SummaryAfrican American children’s literature is rich with significant themes and tropes that educators can effectively use to teach about important events, figures, and historical facts in a culturally sensitive way to a diverse classroom of students. It is extremely important that teachers have a thorough understanding of the particular tropes that they may choose to dissect and teach from a selection of African American Children’s Literature. In addition it is extremely important for educators to be familiar with African American history in order to appropriately relate the valuable ideals and themes from within the selected literature.
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- One of the major tropes that avails itself throughout African American literature is the quilt.
- Quilts During the Period of Enslavement.
- Guiding slaves to freedom is also the central theme of other African American Children's Literature.
- The following books are part of African American children's literature that uses quilts as symbolism for the notion of freedom and safety.
- family do their traveling during the night and therefore the 'quilt of night' is the freedom and safety of night.
- The Quilt and Family Life.
- African American literature is rich with the trope of quilts and quilting.
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