Where Are the People of Color?: Representation of Cultural Diversity in the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and Advocating for Diverse Books in a Non-Post Racial Society | Zendy

Steven T Bickmore | Zendy; Yunying Xu | Zendy; Myra Sheridan | Zendy

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Where Are the People of Color?: Representation of Cultural Diversity in the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and Advocating for Diverse Books in a Non-Post Racial Society

Author(s) -

Steven T Bickmore,

Yunying Xu,

Myra Sheridan

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

taboo

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2164-7399

pISSN - 1080-5400

DOI - 10.31390/taboo.16.1.06

Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , representation (politics) , people of color , sociology , media studies , gender studies , cultural diversity , race (biology) , political science , law , anthropology , politics

Guided by the research question “How are the diverse issues of race/ethnicity represented in the NBA?,” this descriptive content analysis examines the representations of author gender, author race/ethnicity, protagonist race/ethnicity, protagonist socioeconomic status, and genre of the 100 National Book Award finalists and 20 winners from 1996 to 2015. The dataset indicated that there are problematic representations of race/ethnicity, and the National Book award is not as diverse as we have expected. Of the 23 culturally relevant texts in the National Book Award, only 5 are winners. The results of this study show that using only award lists to guide teachers’ book selections is problematic.

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