Tobe : a critical edition : new views on a children's classic / edited by Benjamin Filene ; original text by Stella Gentry Sharpe ; photographs by Charles A. Farrell.

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"When UNC Press published Stella Gentry Sharpe's "Tobe" in 1939, it was hailed as one of the first children's books to offer a dignified portrayal of an African American child and his family. Today, the power of "Tobe" lies as much in the questions it raises: Whose story gets told? Who gets to tell...

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Main Author: Sharpe, Stella Gentry (Author)
Other Authors: Farrell, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1893-1977 (Illustrator), Filene, Benjamin (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Sharpe, Stella Gentry. > Tobe.
Sharpe, Stella Gentry > Criticism and interpretation.
African American children > North Carolina > Juvenile fiction.
African American farmers > North Carolina > Juvenile fiction.
African American families > North Carolina > Juvenile fiction.
African American children.
African American families.
African American farmers.
North Carolina.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Genre:
Juvenile fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Physical Description:lv, 121 pages ; 26 cm
Format: Book

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