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Rosalinda B. Barrera is a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in multicultural children's literature and early childhood literacy. She served as lead editor for Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K-8 (2nd ed.), published by the National Council of Teachers of English (1997). Her research interests include Latino children's literature and the literacy education of Latino children. She is currently the associate director of the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society at UIUC. Her most recent publication is Multicultural Issues in Literacy Research and Practice (Willis, Garcia, Barrera, & Harris, Eds.) (Erlbaum, 2003).
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