Wesley Jacques is a writer, educator, and researcher of children's literature and culture. His scholarly focus is on power and inequity, especially as it pertains to Black children globally. 

Jacques, Wesley S. and Nancy Tolson, eds. 2021. Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora - Visions and Words for Children of the African Diaspora. Forthcoming. (Visit the Obsidian website: https://obsidianlit.org)

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Jacques, Wesley S. 2020. "Reading Relational in Mildred D. Taylor: Toward a Black Feminist Care Ethics for Children’s Literature," Research on Diversity in Youth Literature 2 (2): Article 6. Available online: https://sophia.stkate.edu/rdyl/vol2/iss2/6.