Intentional Diversity: Program Ideas from the Field

Africa Hands

Abstract


The year 2014 was a watershed one for bringing awareness to the issue of diversity in children’s literature. The late author Walter Dean Myers wrote a stirring opinion piece for the New York Times about the Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s (CCBC) report revealing that of the thirty-two-hundred children’s books published in 2013, only ninety-three were about black people.


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Walter Dean Myers, “Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?,” New York Times, March 15, 2014, accessed April 13, 2015, www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/opinion/sunday/where-are-the-people-of-color-in-childrens-books.html?_r=1.

Cooperative Children’s Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Children’s Books by and about People of Color Published in the United States,” accessed April 13, 2015, http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/pcstats.asp.

Christopher Myers, “The Apartheid of Children’s Literature,” New York Times, March 15, 2014, accessed April 14, 2015, www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/opinion/sunday/the-apartheid-of-childrens-literature.html.

We Need Diverse Books, “Annual Report, 2014,” accessed April 15, 2015, http://weneeddiversebooks.org/annualreport2014.




DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.13n3.19

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