This Week in Diversity: Prizes and Veterans

November 12, 2010 – 6:39 pm

There’s been a lot of chatter about prizes lately! The ALA has added another children’s book award—and more diversity. The new Stonewall Award for Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award will be recognizing books for young readers relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience. There could also be a prize for you! To [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Changing and Expanding Communities

July 23, 2010 – 11:39 am

Some interesting essays round the blogosphere this week touching on all kinds of diversity—race and more! Cynic’s blogging for Ta-Nehisi Coates, and he has a really interesting look at the progression of ethnic groups through his neighborhood: first the Irish, then the Jews, now the African Americans. Each group starts as outsiders, whom the insiders [...]

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This Week in Diversity: There’s an app for that

July 16, 2010 – 10:30 am

Well, it’s HOT, and it seems like the urge to stay out of the heat has led to lots of thoughtful conversations around the web this week. We begin with a new take on To Kill a Mockingbird, the classic by Harper Lee that celebrated its 50th Anniversary just this week. While it’s been taught [...]

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Poll: Picture Books with Same-Sex Parents

June 14, 2010 – 11:45 am

We’re all about diversity here at Lee & Low, and we know that diversity means more than just race. It’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, and we’re wondering what our readers would think about picture books portraying the growing number of families led by same-sex parents—would you buy or review picture books featuring [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Arizona, the Supreme Court, and Crayons

May 14, 2010 – 3:29 pm

Before we launch into this week’s roundup of race and diversity links, I’d like to make a plea: help your local library. Many around the country are facing massive budget cuts, so let your elected officials know that your library is important. New Yorkers, NYPL has a handy form to help you contact your City [...]

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This Week in Diversity: The Power of Words and Languages

February 12, 2010 – 4:40 pm

This week we’re starting close to home: from the New York Times, an article on the lack of diversity at top New York City Schools—and a reminder that a lack of diversity doesn’t mean that everyone is white. A long but very interesting paper looks at the role parents’ English ability plays in the juvenile [...]

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This Week in Diversity: A Loving Journey

October 16, 2009 – 11:38 am

We’ll start things out with the bad news: a justice of the peace in Louisiana refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple. His justification? That any children the couple had might suffer discrimination. A quick history review: it was 1967 when the U.S. Supreme court ruled in the case Loving v. Virginia [...]

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More than just a punchline

October 6, 2009 – 1:57 pm

Riding on the subway over the past few weeks, I kept coming across ads for ABC’s new “Comedy Wednesday” sitcom lineup: Hank, The Middle, Modern Family, and Cougartown. Now, aside from my personal feelings about some of these shows (Courtney Cox, what happened to you?) what struck me was how white–and I mean WHITE–the lineup [...]

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