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Re: Multiculturalism and the unending adventure/activism
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From: Jason Low <jlow_at_leeandlow.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:51:17 -0500
I realize the discussion has moved on to How I Became a Ghorst, but I wanted to respond to an earlier comment.
I think Sarah Hamburg’s question and Melissa Lo’s answer to the question about what real activism to these issues looks like is the question to end all questions. From a publisher like LEE & LOW's standpoint the support has to be literal, translating in sales, shown in likes, comments, shares, and being subscribed to the channels where we are putting our best ideas out there to promote real change.
Case in point, if you are not subscribed to blog.leeandlow.com, you are missing out on all of the race related issues we address on a daily basis. Sure we promote things like Black History Month, but our treatment of multiculturalism is one we renew every day, week, month, and year. Conversations like the one we are having here on CCBC-net occur daily. Subscribe to the blog if you care.
If you are on Facebook and you believe in your heart of hearts that issues of inequality and representation are important to you, why haven’t you liked our Facebook page? Here’s a real world example related to Facebook: Let’s say a journalist from the New York Times, has been hearing that this diversity issue in children’s books is starting to come to some kind of head. So she goes to LEE & LOW’s Facebook page because they are one of the bigger independent publishers in this space. She notes there are less than 3,000 likes on this page and quickly surmises that this issue is not that important b/c they couldn’t even max out the number likes on their Facebook page (the maximum number of likes is 5,000). If 5,000 people cannot even bother to like a page that represents something this important, how vital is it?
So to get to the 5,000 Facebook likes we are currently running a book giveaway contest that ends on 2/26. The prize is a book signed by Rosa Parks. All you have to do is like our Facebook page. Sure it takes all of 1-minute of effort to enter the contest (Enter here: http://bit.ly/1ol22Xw), but you have a chance to win a book personally signed by one of the legends of the civil rights movement AND support a diverse publisher. So far the response has been underwhelming. Real activism starts with feeling strongly enough about a cause to sign your name on the dotted line.
Thanks,
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:51:17 -0500
I realize the discussion has moved on to How I Became a Ghorst, but I wanted to respond to an earlier comment.
I think Sarah Hamburg’s question and Melissa Lo’s answer to the question about what real activism to these issues looks like is the question to end all questions. From a publisher like LEE & LOW's standpoint the support has to be literal, translating in sales, shown in likes, comments, shares, and being subscribed to the channels where we are putting our best ideas out there to promote real change.
Case in point, if you are not subscribed to blog.leeandlow.com, you are missing out on all of the race related issues we address on a daily basis. Sure we promote things like Black History Month, but our treatment of multiculturalism is one we renew every day, week, month, and year. Conversations like the one we are having here on CCBC-net occur daily. Subscribe to the blog if you care.
If you are on Facebook and you believe in your heart of hearts that issues of inequality and representation are important to you, why haven’t you liked our Facebook page? Here’s a real world example related to Facebook: Let’s say a journalist from the New York Times, has been hearing that this diversity issue in children’s books is starting to come to some kind of head. So she goes to LEE & LOW’s Facebook page because they are one of the bigger independent publishers in this space. She notes there are less than 3,000 likes on this page and quickly surmises that this issue is not that important b/c they couldn’t even max out the number likes on their Facebook page (the maximum number of likes is 5,000). If 5,000 people cannot even bother to like a page that represents something this important, how vital is it?
So to get to the 5,000 Facebook likes we are currently running a book giveaway contest that ends on 2/26. The prize is a book signed by Rosa Parks. All you have to do is like our Facebook page. Sure it takes all of 1-minute of effort to enter the contest (Enter here: http://bit.ly/1ol22Xw), but you have a chance to win a book personally signed by one of the legends of the civil rights movement AND support a diverse publisher. So far the response has been underwhelming. Real activism starts with feeling strongly enough about a cause to sign your name on the dotted line.
Thanks,
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Jason Low
Publisher
LEE & LOW BOOKS
95 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
t. 212-779-4400 x. 27
e. jlow_at_leeandlow.com
w. leeandlow.com
b. blog.leeandlow.com
On Feb 17, 2014, at 12:34 AM, Diversity in YA <diversityinya_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Sarah Hamburg asked what I think is a very important question regarding multicultural literature: "what does/would activism on these issues look like to you?"
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