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CPLT 202W "Let Black Kids be Kids: Rethinking Black Childhood Through Literature and Media"

This guide is designed to assist the students in Professor Soares's Fall 2025 Semester class with their research

Books at Emory

Key Word Searching

Keyword Search: Use keyword searching on a single term or to combine concepts (X AND Y) and to search for particular words or phrases that might appear in titles or notes or subjects: See examples below: 

race and childhood and literature;  black childhood; black children and media; James Baldwin

Subject Searching

Subject Search  In the library catalog, books, videos and other materials are assigned Library of Congress (LC) subject headings based on their content. If you find a book that looks useful go into the record for that book and look at the subject headings used to describe the book -- click on any of them -- these are hyperlinks that will take you to a list of books with that particular subject heading that we have at Emory.  Here is a sample list of relevant subject headings for this course.

African American children in literature

African American youth in literature

Baldwin, James,1924-1987--Criticism and interpretation

Children, Black, in literature

Children in literature

Racism in literature