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From: Edith Campbell <crazyquilts_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 11:30:01 -0500
AHH! There is no name n the "Activism" post, so I'm not sure who to compliment for such a thorough and thought provoking list. Reading through, I was able to realize how much I'm doing and how much more I can do.
I have just a few thoughts that have come from reading your list. Living as a person of color in 21st century America is in many ways no less confusing than I imagine it was in the 18th century. I think one of our biggest obstacles now is that of 'invisibility', a theme that has been repeated over and over here. While having conferences and workshops for artists, writers, librarians and publishers to support and promote literature by and about people of color, it is crucial that African American, Native American, Arab Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans and indeed all disenfranchised groups show up at the big parties. Join and participate in SCBWI, NCTE, ALA, ALAN... and the many groups that are connected to children's literature. Pulling away will not serve any productive purpose. Show up at the conferences, join the committees and netork to create presentations.
I would include a mention to academics to not limit works by authors of color in and articles that limit their focus to diversity issues and and to be sure to include these books as the popular literature that they are. Academics touch editors, teachers and librarians in their formative years and shape how these books will be accepted. Don't just talk about Gary Soto and Jacqueline Woodson in multicultural literature classes. Include examples from Bruchac, Saenz or Engle in your journal articles that are not focused on diversity, multiculturalism or ethnicity. Set the tone that works by authors of color are works by American authors. This is similar to librarians and booksstores including POC works in displays on general themes.
I'll be adding the resources for inspiring authors of color mentioned over the past days to the Resource page on my blog where currently, I have only the following information.
Pine Manor College supports writers through several fellowships including the Jacqueline Woodson Fellowship for a Young Peoples Writer of African or Caribbean Descent, the Hope Fellowship for Diverse Voices and the Sharon Olds Fellowship for Poetry. http://www.pmc.edu/mfa-financial-aid
We're a community and as such, we have to keep reaching out, reaching back and reaching up.
Edith Campbell
CrazyQuiltEdi blog
http://campbele.wordpress.com
_at_crazyquilts
"Live where you fear to live. Be notorious."
~Rumi
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Received on Sat 01 Mar 2014 10:30:34 AM CST
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 11:30:01 -0500
AHH! There is no name n the "Activism" post, so I'm not sure who to compliment for such a thorough and thought provoking list. Reading through, I was able to realize how much I'm doing and how much more I can do.
I have just a few thoughts that have come from reading your list. Living as a person of color in 21st century America is in many ways no less confusing than I imagine it was in the 18th century. I think one of our biggest obstacles now is that of 'invisibility', a theme that has been repeated over and over here. While having conferences and workshops for artists, writers, librarians and publishers to support and promote literature by and about people of color, it is crucial that African American, Native American, Arab Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans and indeed all disenfranchised groups show up at the big parties. Join and participate in SCBWI, NCTE, ALA, ALAN... and the many groups that are connected to children's literature. Pulling away will not serve any productive purpose. Show up at the conferences, join the committees and netork to create presentations.
I would include a mention to academics to not limit works by authors of color in and articles that limit their focus to diversity issues and and to be sure to include these books as the popular literature that they are. Academics touch editors, teachers and librarians in their formative years and shape how these books will be accepted. Don't just talk about Gary Soto and Jacqueline Woodson in multicultural literature classes. Include examples from Bruchac, Saenz or Engle in your journal articles that are not focused on diversity, multiculturalism or ethnicity. Set the tone that works by authors of color are works by American authors. This is similar to librarians and booksstores including POC works in displays on general themes.
I'll be adding the resources for inspiring authors of color mentioned over the past days to the Resource page on my blog where currently, I have only the following information.
Pine Manor College supports writers through several fellowships including the Jacqueline Woodson Fellowship for a Young Peoples Writer of African or Caribbean Descent, the Hope Fellowship for Diverse Voices and the Sharon Olds Fellowship for Poetry. http://www.pmc.edu/mfa-financial-aid
We're a community and as such, we have to keep reaching out, reaching back and reaching up.
Edith Campbell
CrazyQuiltEdi blog
http://campbele.wordpress.com
_at_crazyquilts
"Live where you fear to live. Be notorious."
~Rumi
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