Kidlit Bloggers

This is one of the blogs that my students and I created for a course on young adult literature. For this particular blog, students weren't required to post and we used the space as a complement to our twice a week sessions. The "Issues of Diversity in Children's and Adolescent Literature" blog shows what it looked like when I had a blog as an instructor and asked students to create and link their own review blogs to the course site.
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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Human Care Bears article

In our discussion of "Meant to Be Huge" we started talking about how the normal body is constructed in stories.

This article takes on how "retarded" is used as a term and how the "retarded figure" works in popular culture:

"Human Care Bears: Rahm Emanuel's "retarded" outburst made good headlines, but the way some advocates portray the mentally disabled is far more offensive"

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