Books as Mirrors: Black Immigrant Young Adult Literature
3 min readFeb 28, 2021
What might it feel like to open a book and see reflections of yourself?
Characters who speak like you. Settings that remind you of home. Story events that resemble your lived experiences.
In 1990, Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, Professor Emerita at Ohio State University, wrote an article titled “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors”. In the…
