Multicultural literature is a term used to describe literature of, by, or about various racial/ethnic/cultural groups. Sometimes the term is also used for books about sexual identity, disabilities, and age. Usually it is used to describe books portraying people that are not of Anglo-Saxon origin. Many books that are culturally neutral or generic do not have an assigned racial/ethnic subject heading, but most books that are "culturally specific" will have such a subject heading. The terms that are used as subject headings are chosen by the Library of Congress.

Multicultural literature is found throughout the collection in Easy, Fiction, and Non-Fiction

Search the Curriculum Lab Catalog:

SEARCH TYPE : subject heading - enter one of the following words or phrases

African Americans	Indians of North America	old age
Asian Americans	(Note: Also Navajo, Dakota, etc.)	people with disabilities
blind	interracial	physically handicapped
Chinese Americans	Islam	prejudices
deaf	Japanese Americans	Puerto Ricans
gay	Jews	race relations
Haitian Americans	Korean Americans	racially mixed people
Hispanic Americans	Kwanzaa	refugees
holidays	lesbian	sex role
homosexuality	Mexican Americans	Vietnamese Americans

 

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International Literature:

For books set in other countries:

SEARCH TYPE: Subject heading - enter the name of the country

For books originally published in another language:

SEARCH TYPE : Keyword Anywhere - enter the search term translated

Bibliographies:

On the Curriculum Lab Bibliographies page, there is a section for Multicultural/Diversity which includes the following bibliographies as well as others:

Celebrating Diversity  

Disorders and Syndromes

GLBTQ

Holidays and Festivals Around the World

Curriculum Guides:

C.L.R /H46fr	Bishop, Rudine Sims. FREE WITHIN OURSELVES: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE. Heinemann, 2007
C.L.R /P36e	Gangi, Jane M. ENCOUNTERING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: AN ARTS APPROACH. Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, 2004.
C.L /L69u	Knowles, Elizabeth. UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY THROUGH NOVELS AND PICTURE BOOKS. Libraries Unlimited,2007.
C.Ls.l /N27l	Wood, Jaime R. LIVING VOICES: MULTICULTURAL POETRY IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL CLASSROOM. NCTE, 2006.

Reference Books:

Z1037 .E19	East, Kathy. ACROSS CULTURES: A GUIDE TO MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN. Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
Z1361 .E4 K34	KALEIDOSCOPE: A MULTICULTURAL BOOKLIST FOR GRADES K-8.   NCTE, 2003.
Z1037 .M31125	Marantz, Sylvia. MULTICULTURAL PICTURE BOOKS: ART FOR ILLUMINATING OUR WORLD. Scarecrow, 2005.
Z1231 .F4 W36	Ward, Marilyn. VOICES FROM THE MARGINS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FICTION ON DISABILITIES AND DIFFERENCES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Greenwood, 2002.
Z1037 .A2 Y67	York, Sherry. ETHNIC BOOK AWARDS: A DIRECTORY OF MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE FOR YOUNG READERS. Linworth, 2005.
PS153 .H56 Y67	York, Sherry. PICTURE BOOKS BY LATINO WRITERS: A GUIDE FOR LIBRARIANS, TEACHERS, PARENTS AND STUDENTS. Linworth, 2002
Z1229 .I52 Y67	York, Sherry. CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE BY NATIVE AMERICANS: A GUIDE FOR LIBRARIANS, TEACHERS, PARENTS AND STUDENTS. Linworth, 2003

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Batchelder Award  - outstanding children's book published in a foreign language and translated into English.

Coretta Scott King Award - African American authors, illustrators and books

Pura Belpre Award - outstanding children's literature and illustration that celebrates the Latino/a cultural

Schneider Award - an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award - authors and illustrators who create literature that depicts the Mexican American experience

 

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