1. What Is Street Literature?
Presented by:
K.C. Boyd
Wendell Phillips Academy High School
Academy of Urban School Leadership School
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3. Phillips Library Media Center
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4. What are pre-teens and teens reading?
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6. What do we call these books?
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7. Ghetto Literature
Hip Hop Literature
Street Literature
Urban Fiction
Urban Literature
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8. Urban Fiction
Subgenres of Urban Fiction8 K.C. Boyd, 11-29-11
The Reader’s Advisory Guide to Street Literature by Vanessa I. Morris

9. Urban Fiction – stories set in urban settings/cities
that feature characters whose experiences span
cultural, social, political, geographical, and
economic boundaries.
The Reader’s Advisory Guide to Street Literature by Vanessa I. Morris
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10. Sex and the City is Viewed as a Urban Comedy
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11. *What is Street Literature?
Street Literature –
reality based stories about the streets that are
authentic, unapologetic and truthful. The genre is location specific
and depicts tales about the daily lives of people living in lower-
income city neighborhoods.
“The Reader’s Advisory Guide to Street Literature” by Vanessa I. Morris
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12. Ghetto Literature
Hip Hop Literature
Street Literature
Urban Fiction
Urban Literature
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13. Why Should Library Collections
Contain Some Street Literature Titles?
- Timeless themes such as peer
pressure, violence, pregnancy, divorce, drugs and sex appear in the
stories.
- Students should be exposed to a variety of genres.
- The stories are cautionary tales that takes the reader on a journey that
forces them to compare the stories to their own lives.
- The students can directly relate to the characters and empathize with
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their struggles.

14. Why Should Library Collections
Contain Some Street Literature Titles?
- The stories within the genre serve as a platform for discussion/dialogue
for tweens and teens with adults.
- Some students are avid readers and are looking for a challenge when
reading Street Literature.
- Some students possess the emotional maturity to understand and handle
the content in these books.
- The genre meets the needs of a group of library patrons that have
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historically been ignored.

15. Not every
book
Is
Street
Literature
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16. Should I Have Street Literature In My Collection?
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17. Chicago Public Schools
Collection Development Policy for
School Libraries
Found under ‘CPS Board Approves Library Collection Development Policy –
Librarian Information’ http://policy.cps.k12.il.us/documents/604.7.pdf
Librarians should make purchasing decisions based on
their knowledge of the following:
Students
Communities
Collection needs
Other criteria set forth in the CPS Collection Development Policy
for School Librarians
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18. Be Prepared to Defend the
Genre and Books in Your Collection
- Make sure you understand the district selection
and reconsideration policy that addresses written
challenges to books.
- Understand your students and the community
- Read the books
- Read reviews
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6632974.html
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19. My Success is Attributed to….
Supportive Teaching Staff
Supportive Administration
Teachers that Read to
their Students
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Keeping Abreast of New Trends

20. Early Writers of Street Literature
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21. Author, Stephen Crane
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22. Author, Frank Norris
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23. Author, Abraham Cahan
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24. Author, Claude Brown
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25. Robert “Iceberg Slim” Beck
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26. Donald Goines
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27. Popular Street Literature
‘Read Alikes’ for Middle School and Early High School Students
Classics and My favorites
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30. *New Releases…
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35. Popular Street Literature
‘Read Alikes’ for High School Students
Classics and my favorites
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47. Popular Street Literature
Novels And Series:
Adult Classics and My favorites
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59. Excellent Resources for Librarians
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60. Paula Brehm-Heeger
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61. Denise Agusto and
Sandra Hughes-Hassell
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62. Megan Sweeney
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63. Megan Honig
Former Young Adult Materials Specialist
Central Collection Development
New York Public Library
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64. The Reader’s Advisory Guide
to Street Literature
by Vanessa I. Morris
Assistant Teaching Professor,
The iSchool at Drexel University
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65. http://phatfiction.blogspot.com/
Susan McClelland
Reader’s Advisory Librarian
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Oak Park Public Library

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http://www.jahreinaresearch.info/VJMWebsite/

67. *http://www.vanirvinmorris.
com/
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68. * http://www.streetfiction.org/category/genres/urban-teen/
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70. K.C. Boyd, Library Media Specialist
http://www.missdomino.blogspot.com/
kcboyd1@gmail.com
http://www.slideshare.net/kcboyd1
Warrior Library Media Specialist, Lover of Street Literature,
Hip-Hop/House Music Lover, Reviewer of Books and Girlie Girl
You can follow me on:
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