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“Reading in Color: Children’s Book Illustrations and Identity Formation for Black
Children in the United States” from
African American Review
32 (1): 95-105.
search.proquest.com/docview/209795605?accountid=49882.• This article mentions both Jerry and Brian Pinkney, as well as Romeare Bearden
From NPR’s coverage on Ezra Jack Keats’s
The Snowy Day
:
“There was a teacher [who] wrote
in to Ezra, saying, ‘The kids in my class, for the first time, are using brown crayons to draw them-
selves.’ These are African-American children. Before this, they drew themselves with pink crayons.
But now, they can see themselves.”
Listen to the full NPR story here:
npr.org/2012/01/28/145052896/the-snowy-day-breaking-color-barriers-quietly