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From: Tater Tot <tatertot22us>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:39:13 -0700 (PDT)
Hello Elsa, About name-calling in books versus movies, tv ... in any way, it's terrible to be the one who has the names hurled his/her way. Books historically have preserved the words. Now TV and movies make the pronounciation easily available. With songs (and not just rap),DVDs, film, reruns, U Tube, etc. accessible, this media allow children to hear words words as well as show what the victim's reaction is, in full color. Children who are not familiar with certain negative words can quickly pick them up this way. They might gloss over them in books. Some words are so negative that sometimes some victims of the targeted ethnic group embrace them, thinking that saying such words negates the impact, not realizing that they're merely helping to spread and condone them. Scholars sometimes use these words in print or verbally, thinking that as scholars they're outside the rhelm, merely approaching the controversary from an intellectual level. However, they share the responsibility of validating such words. I seen and heard writers use the "N" word during readings, as if they've been empowered by having used it. Eleanora E. Tate, Author of the award-winning YA Novel Celeste's Harlem Renaissance
--- On Fri, 4/10/09, Elsa Marston <elsa.marston at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Elsa Marston <elsa.marston at gmail.com>
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Name-calling
> To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 11:26 PM
> I don't know whether this is getting too off-subject or
> not; I just want to
> say I'm saving the interesting comments by Debbie Reese
> and Wendy Burton on
> "name-calling" because they seem relevant to my
> own main literary concern
> (as writer and specialist-of-sorts), which is Arab and
> Arab-American kids,
> who are often subject to ethnic slurs.
>
> Do others of you on the CCBC list have observations about
> whether kids take
> what they read in *books* (fiction) more seriously than
> what they hear in
> movies, TV, etc.? Do books seem to sanction certain
> behavior more than
> other forms of entertainment do?
>
> Elsa
> www.elsamarston.com
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Received on Sat 11 Apr 2009 07:39:13 AM CDT
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:39:13 -0700 (PDT)
Hello Elsa, About name-calling in books versus movies, tv ... in any way, it's terrible to be the one who has the names hurled his/her way. Books historically have preserved the words. Now TV and movies make the pronounciation easily available. With songs (and not just rap),DVDs, film, reruns, U Tube, etc. accessible, this media allow children to hear words words as well as show what the victim's reaction is, in full color. Children who are not familiar with certain negative words can quickly pick them up this way. They might gloss over them in books. Some words are so negative that sometimes some victims of the targeted ethnic group embrace them, thinking that saying such words negates the impact, not realizing that they're merely helping to spread and condone them. Scholars sometimes use these words in print or verbally, thinking that as scholars they're outside the rhelm, merely approaching the controversary from an intellectual level. However, they share the responsibility of validating such words. I seen and heard writers use the "N" word during readings, as if they've been empowered by having used it. Eleanora E. Tate, Author of the award-winning YA Novel Celeste's Harlem Renaissance
--- On Fri, 4/10/09, Elsa Marston <elsa.marston at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Elsa Marston <elsa.marston at gmail.com>
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Name-calling
> To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 11:26 PM
> I don't know whether this is getting too off-subject or
> not; I just want to
> say I'm saving the interesting comments by Debbie Reese
> and Wendy Burton on
> "name-calling" because they seem relevant to my
> own main literary concern
> (as writer and specialist-of-sorts), which is Arab and
> Arab-American kids,
> who are often subject to ethnic slurs.
>
> Do others of you on the CCBC list have observations about
> whether kids take
> what they read in *books* (fiction) more seriously than
> what they hear in
> movies, TV, etc.? Do books seem to sanction certain
> behavior more than
> other forms of entertainment do?
>
> Elsa
> www.elsamarston.com
> _______________________________________________
> CCBC-Net mailing list
> CCBC-Net at lists.education.wisc.edu
> Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe...
> http://lists.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net
Received on Sat 11 Apr 2009 07:39:13 AM CDT
