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Re: Multicultural Literature, continued
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From: Debbie Reese <dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:35:05 -0600
I'm right there with you, Jason, taking up this fight.
There's so much resistance to the books that we're focusing on this month. The backlash to the Coca-Cola commercial is indicative of that resistance (by the way, one of the languages featured in the ad is a teen from Santo Domingo Pueblo, singing in Keres, which is the language they speak at SD.)
And I think the discussion at SLJ about "casual diversity" is another indication of resistance. People who objected to the Coke ad are flat-out racist and arrogant. The quest for books with characters of color whose identity is not part of the story... that's a harder one for us to see as problematic, but I think it is part of the same resistance. They want to leave the books where identity does, in some way, shape the story, for when a kid is older and presumably more able to have conversations about race, class, or sexual orientation, but hey! Isn't that a white call? A privileged call? A heterosexual call?
Debbie
__________________________________________________________ Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com
Website: American Indians in Children's Literature
_at_ http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net
Now: Studying for MLIS at San Jose State University Then: Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:35:05 -0600
I'm right there with you, Jason, taking up this fight.
There's so much resistance to the books that we're focusing on this month. The backlash to the Coca-Cola commercial is indicative of that resistance (by the way, one of the languages featured in the ad is a teen from Santo Domingo Pueblo, singing in Keres, which is the language they speak at SD.)
And I think the discussion at SLJ about "casual diversity" is another indication of resistance. People who objected to the Coke ad are flat-out racist and arrogant. The quest for books with characters of color whose identity is not part of the story... that's a harder one for us to see as problematic, but I think it is part of the same resistance. They want to leave the books where identity does, in some way, shape the story, for when a kid is older and presumably more able to have conversations about race, class, or sexual orientation, but hey! Isn't that a white call? A privileged call? A heterosexual call?
Debbie
__________________________________________________________ Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com
Website: American Indians in Children's Literature
_at_ http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net
Now: Studying for MLIS at San Jose State University Then: Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois
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