Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World

HARRY POTTER AND THE OTHER: RACE, JUSTICE, AND DIFFERENCE IN THE WIZARDING WORLD (Children's Literature Association Series), edited by Sarah Park Dahlen and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, softcover, stated first printing, 2022. BOOK CONDITION: fine. The text block is in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. No signature or bookplate of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. The wraps are in fine condition. 9 x 6, 317 pages, 17 ounces XX [From the back cover] Essays by Christina M. Chica, Kathryn Coto, Sarah Park Dahlen, Preethi Gorecki, Tolonda Henderson, Marcia Hernandez, Jackie C. Horne, Susan E. Howard, Peter C. Kunze, Florence Maätita, Sridevi Rao, Kallie Schell, Jennifer Patrice Sims, Paul Spickard, Lily Anne Welty Tamai, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Jasmine Wade, Karin E. Westman, and Charles D. Wilson XX HARRY POTTER AND THE OTHER offers an essential Intervention both in Harry Potter studies and in children's literature studies more generally, explicating with great erudition and care the promise and limits of Rowling's fantasies of multiculturalism (Tison Pugh, author of Harry Potter and Beyond: On J. R. Rowling's Fantasies and Other Fictions). XX What sets this collection apart is its focus in meaningful ways on social systems that seek to silence and oppress (Gwen Athene Tarbox, author of Children's and Young Adult Comics and coeditor of Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays). XX HARRY POTTER AND THE OTHER: RACE, JUSTICE, AND DIFFERENCE IN THE WIZARDING WORLD is a timely anthology that examines, interrogates, and critiques representations of race and difference across various Potter media. As the contributors to this volume demonstrate, a deeper reading of the series reveals multiple ruptures in popular understandings of the liberatory potential of the Potter series. Increasingly, readers have raised alarms about the series' depiction of peoples of color, cultural appropriation in worldbuilding, and the author's antitrans statements in the media. This book provides a smorgasbord of insights into the way that race and difference have shaped this story, its world, its author, and the generations who have come of age during the era of the Wizarding World. XX Sarah Park Dahlen is associate professor at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences. She coedits the journal Research on Diversity in Youth Literature and coedited the book Diversity in Youth Literature: Opening Doors through Reading. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas is associate professor at the University of Michigan's School of Education. Her most recent book is The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from "Harry Potter" to the "Hunger Games.".…