Saturday, January 23, 2016

Diversity

Do we really know what it is like to be another race or age or gender? Can we write with credibility? Can we convey to the artists of picture books the reality unless they, too, are experienced or sensitive? This issue came to the fore this week in a series of lectures from New York called Listening for a Change and a controversy over a book called A Birthday Cake for George Washington.

Read more here.
https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/trinity-institute/2016/home

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/18/business/media/scholastic-halts-distribution-of-a-birthday-cake-for-george-washington.html?_r=0

More conversations will follow!
 

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