Jeanne Pitre Soileau
Jeanne Pitre Soileau is author of Yo’ Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play, which received the 2018 Chicago Folklore Prize and the 2018 Opie Prize. She spent fifty years accumulating recordings of children as they answered a short list of questions related to their verbal play. Her study of schoolyard conversations is a treasure trove of children’s networking, speech play, group policing, and imaginative sparring.
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Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux
Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play
University Press of Mississippi
How children have used story and play to navigate problems and delineate ethnic boundaries
What the Children Said
Child Lore of South Louisiana
University Press of Mississippi
A deep exploration of children's play and its impact on learning race, history, and sexuality
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