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
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2017
Publication Title
Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education
Volume
16
Issue
1
First page number:
38
Last page number:
54
Abstract
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 data set 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.
Keywords
Diversity, Young Adult Literature, BookAwards, Culturally, Relevant, Pedagogy
Language
eng
Repository Citation
Bickmore, S. T.,
Xu, Y.,
Infante-Sheridan, M.
(2017).
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.
Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 16(1),
38-54.
http://dx.doi.org/10.31390/taboo.16.1.06