Description: A groundbreaking study on the impact of Puerto Rican children's literature and culture
Brief description: Marilisa Jiménez García is assistant professor of English and Latinx studies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Review Quotes: Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture expertly crafts a comparative analysis of how children and childhood were invoked in literature and popular culture by white US authors, Puerto Ricans on the island, and Puerto Ricans in the diaspora. Marilisa Jiménez García provides a necessary critical analysis of texts often deemed politically neutral because they are for and/or are about children. In doing so, she demonstrates how Puerto Rican children are central to understanding historical and contemporary debates about Puerto Rican cultural politics.--Jillian M. Báez, author of In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship