Research on Diversity in Youth Literature
About the Journal
The mission of Research on Diversity in Youth Literature (RDYL) is to publish scholarship attending to issues of diversity, equity, social justice, inclusion, and intersectionality in youth literature, culture, and media.
Research on Diversity in Youth Literature is a peer-reviewed, online, open-access journal hosted by The Center for Children's Books , School of Information Sciences , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign . RDYL is published twice a year.
See our latest CFP - a special issue on representations of adoption and fostering ! Scheduled to publish in Summer 2025, RDYL 7.1 will be guest edited by Dr. Kimberly D. McKee (Grand Valley State University) and Shannon Gibney (Minneapolis College).
NEWS (2024 summer) : We are in the process of migrating the previous 4 volumes from their original home at the St. Catherine University RDYL website.
Current Issue
Front Matter
Book challenges: a polemic on taking back our joy, arguing book bans: a critical analysis of public forums at school board meetings, “dear george, with love”: reading all boys aren’t blue through a lens of critical love amidst rampant book bans, censorship in early childhood: a critical content analysis of banned and challenged latine picture books, everyone’s culture is for the children: encountering and contextualizing the rhetorical strategies of book banners, i will not be silent.
Book Reviews
Marilisa Jiménez García. Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture. University of Mississippi, 2021. 242 pages. ISBN: 9781496832481.
Aguiló-pérez, emily r. an american icon in puerto rico: barbie, girlhood, and colonialism at play. berghahn books, 2022. 208 pages. print isbn: 9781800733862. ebook isbn: 9781800733879..
RDYL ’s Book Review Editors oversee the publication of 2-3 book reviews per issue. If you are interested in having RDYL review your book or writing reviews for RDYL , or if you have a suggestion for a book to be reviewed, email [email protected].
Year Round Submissions
- We are now accepting essays for consideration year-round for our unthemed issues.
- Questions? Email [email protected]
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Young adult street literature memoir is a collection of culturally conscious, coming of age, first-person texts that graphically depict inner-city life and vividly illustrate Black youth living in marginalized societies.
Representing the Rainbow in Young Adult Literature: LGBTQ+ Content since 1969. Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. 310 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4422-7806-6. Jason D. Vanfosson. PDF. Alamillo, Laura, Larissa M. Mercado-López, and Cristina Herrera, eds. Voices of Resistance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chican@ Children’s Literature.
literature is a tool for perpetuating power structures, reifying the positions and perspectives of those most empowered in a given society. And while this work focuses specifically on literatures produced (or translated) for audiences in Spain—-and even more precisely, works governed by a
This research articulates that girls navigate their feminist identities through participation and critiques of internet culture. While popular feminism highlights how traditional empowerment rhetoric focuses on the
Unsettling Representations of Identities: A Critical Review of Diverse Youth Literature. E. Sybil Durand, Arizona State University Follow. Marilisa Jiménez-García, Lehigh University Follow.
Sophia previously encompassed a repository for graduate student scholarship, Sophia Scholar for faculty, and the open-access journal Research on Diversity in Youth Literature. Please search the collections below for the item you are looking for.
“representations of identity in recently published youth literature favor discourses and texts that acknowledge youth identities as fluid, overlapping, and intersecting.” The authors of the essays in this issue draw on their lived experiences and research to analyze different texts for young people.
Juliet Takes a Breath as the Blueprint for Reimagining Allyship in Literacy Instruction," Research on Diversity in Youth Literature: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 3. Available at: https://sophia.stkate.edu/rdyl/vol4/iss1/3.
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Mills, J. Elizabeth; Loza, Roxana; McDaniel, Breanna J.; Mansour, Nadia; Chandler, Karen; and Martin, Michelle H. (2021) "Many Hands Make Rich Work: Mentorship and Collaboration in a Diverse Scholarly Space," Research on Diversity in Youth Literature: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 13.