period of time the authors argue that “stereotypes of blacks may not have been eliminated but changed in character, taking subtler and more indirect forms” (Pescosolido et al, 445).
This six decade study argues that before the Civil War some children’s novels contained black characters that were as multi-dimensional as the central characters in them. However, over the period in question, they find a nonlinear portrayal of black characters over time. They divide this representation into four stages. During the first from the 1930s to the 1950s, the authors find a period of declining representation. During the civil rights
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