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  • "Kids should not have to leave their community to live, learn, and earn in a better one." -Steven Ritz
  • Windows and mirrors
  • Explicit and implicit curriculum
  • Toni Morrison-literary absence vs. literary presence _Playing in the Dark_
  • Multicultural literature is global literature...how can we make it relevant in the digital age?

The Statistics

Reading Ladders

  • <5.25% African American
  • <3.25% Asian Pacific American
  • <2% Latino
  • <1.25 American Indian
  • ?? Arab American OR Muslim

Muslim American Picture Book Ladder

  • Objective: To find read-aloud picture books that expose students to Muslim Americans without highlighting the religion (windows and mirrors).

Muslim American Children's Literature: Reaching Multiculturalism and Ethnorelativism

The Statistics

Why Muslim American Children's Books?

  • 100% have reading level of second grade and higher
  • 87.5% about Arab American Muslims
  • 87.5% introduce protagonist as "different" than classmates or "other"
  • "If the children of second- and third-generation Muslims are to feel at home in the mosaic of North American culture, they need to see themselves and their values represented positively in literature." -Khan
  • "Lifetime reading and lifelong learning." -Lesesne

Why Diversity?

By: Kaitlynn McShea

  • A character's Islamic identity can be like "wallpaper" or "a part of the setting-providing flavor but definitely not part of the problem" (Khan, 20, pg. 37).
  • "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." -Toni Morrison

Final Thoughts

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore--

And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over--

like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

-Langston Hughes

Muslim American Children's Literature

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