{"id":1631,"date":"2009-04-01T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:52","slug":"fresh-bold-talks-on-race-in-childrens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1631","title":{"rendered":"Fresh &#038; Bold Talks on Race in Children&#8217;s Lit"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;If labels aren\u2019t used, but you know a character is nonwhite, ask yourself and your students how the author communicated that fact. Check for tired food-related clich\u00e9s about \u201ccoffee-colored\u201d skin or \u201calmond-shaped\u201d eyes versus fresh, bold attempts to delineate race and culture in a story.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3364239704\/in\/set-72157604223389696\/\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3462\/3364239704_bc37b1deb9_m.jpg?v=0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> Mitali&#8217;s talking race and writing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoollibraryjournal.com\/article\/CA6647713.html\" target= _blank>School Library Journal<\/a>. (Please: click the link! Read the whole piece!) This article is a refreshed and updated culmination of the many brilliant conversations Mitali starts on her &#8220;fire escape,&#8221; as readers and thinkers gather to talk about interactions between cultures. I&#8217;m proud as can be that the SLJ ghosted by her blog and picked up on the thought-provoking, intelligent discourse Mitali brings to the kidlitosphere. I have often wished that I had her eloquence and wit, and her ability to ask <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitaliblog.com\/2009\/03\/shes-so-over-sensitive.html\" target = _blank>good questions<\/a>. Here&#8217;s to all of us finding a fresh boldness as we write across cultures in our own ways.<\/p>\n<p>Happy National Poetry Month! And today, kick off April with <a href=\"http:\/\/saintsandspinners.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/unnecessary-sequels-that-never-were.html\" target= _blank>Unnecessary Children&#8217;s Book Sequels That Never Were<\/a> with the notably insane <a href=\"http:\/\/bottomshelfbooks.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/contest-time.html\" target= _blank>Minh<\/a> from <i>Bottom Shelf Books<\/i> and Saintly Spinner Farida. Garrulous MacKenzie is <i>baaaack<\/i>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If labels aren\u2019t used, but you know a character is nonwhite, ask yourself and your students how the author communicated that fact. Check for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}