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SUMMARY:From Empire to Empire Windrush and Beyond: Publishing and the Blac
 k British Child - Professor Karen Sands-O'Connor\, Newcastle University
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION: Writing and publishing for a Black British child audience has
  always had a political angle\, from abolition in the late 1700s to the cu
 rriculum wars that still continue today.  And because the greater proporti
 on of British readers were (and are) white\, the motivations of and negoti
 ations between author\, publisher\, and reader are complex.  The changing 
 use of the Black subject in British children’s literature will be shown 
 through an examination of different types of literature—the poem (includ
 ing nursery rhymes)\, the comic\, the educational text\, and literary fict
 ion for children over time.\n\n*Bio\n\nKaren Sands-O'Connor* is Leverhulme
  Visiting Professor at Newcastle University and Seven Stories\, the Nation
 al Centre for the Children's Book.  Her research focuses on Black British 
 children's literature\, most notably in Soon Come Home to This Island: Wes
 t Indians in British Children's Literature (Routledge\, 2007) and her fort
 hcoming Publishing for a Black British Child Audience\, 1965-2015 (Palgrav
 e Macmillan\, 2016). 
LOCATION: MAB 104\, Mary Allan Building\, Homerton College\, Hills Road\, 
 Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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