Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature: A Critical Reader

Marilisa Jiménez García is Associate Professor of Children’s and Young Adult Literary Cultures at Rutgers University-Camden, Department of Childhood Studies. She is the author of Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture, which won the Children’s Literature Association Book Prize for monographs. Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez is Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY). They coedit the journal Research on Diversity in Youth Literature.