I asked myself the same question as I returned to begin a new school year in 2017 and started the Read Woke movement. In the middle of the night I ask myself if anyone really cares.” “Today, when about 40 percent of public school students nationwide are black and Latino, the disparity of representation is even more egregious. “In 1969, when I first entered the world of writing children’s literature.children of color were not represented, nor were children from the lower economic classes,” he wrote in a 2014 New York Times editorial shortly before his death. That would have been no surprise to Walter Dean Myers. In 2018, animal characters received more representation in these books than children of color! Twenty-seven percent of books starred animals, while 23 percent featured nonwhite characters overall. An infographic published in 2019 illustrating the lack of Black representation in children’s literature left many people devastated.
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