Chapter 3 “Let Me Tell You a Story”: Healing, Environmental Justice, and Resistance in Mark Oshiro’s Each of Us a Desert

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Walking Between the Lines 1
5. Opening Poem: My Curriculum 19
6. Section 1: Youth as Intellectuals and Storytellers
7. Chapter 1 Out of Empire’s Shadow: Confronting US Imperialism through Randy Ribay’s The Patron Saints of Nothing 23
8. Chapter 2 Becoming a Girl: Girlhood, Child Marriage, and Widowhood in Kashmira Sheth’s Keeping Corner 41
9. Chapter 3 “Let Me Tell You a Story”: Healing, Environmental Justice, and Resistance in Mark Oshiro’s Each of Us a Desert 59
10. Section 2: Intersectionality and Counternarratives
11. Chapter 4 Representations of Asian American Girlhood in Contemporary Young Adult Literature 77
12. Chapter 5 In the Spirit: Womanist Notions of Blackness, Indigeneity, Gender, and Dis/ability in Children’s Literature 99
13. Chapter 6 The Power of Story, Images, and Policy in Native Studies: An Interview with Traci Sorell and Alia Jones 119
14. Section 3: Community Frameworks
15. Chapter 7 African American Children’s Literature: The First 100 Years (reprint) 135
16. Chapter 8 Critical Indigenous Literacies: Selecting and Using Children’s Books about Indigenous Peoples (reprint) 153
17. Chapter 9 The Mirror, the Matrix, the Movement: Intellectual Legacies of the Council on Interracial Books for Children 161
18. Coda: Reflections on Struggle, Freedom, and Storytelling 179
19. List of Contributors 187
20. Index 191