This Week in Diversity: Conferences, Movies, and Visualizing the World

October 15, 2010 – 5:20 pm

October’s a busy time of year for conferences! At the New England Independent Bookseller’s Association conference, they had a panel on Selling Color in a White World. Our own Stacy Whitman of Tu Books participated—though, due to subway flooding, she joined the discussion via phone. Author Mitali Perkins and bookseller Elizabeth Bluemle shared their experiences [...]

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A is for (Amazing) Anansi

October 12, 2010 – 5:42 pm

    Zetta Elliott asked some important questions about issues of identity & representation, and who has the power and right to tell stories. She also asked what kind of progress has been made when most books featuring African Americans still focus on historical/civil rights subjects. How do those books shape the identities of today’s [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Appearance

July 30, 2010 – 3:20 pm

Greetings on another Friday afternoon! Steph Su Reads starts us out with Why I Want More Asians on YA Book Covers: My Experience with Racism, in which she shares a personal experience with racism and her dismay over the revised cover of Cindy Pon’s Silver Phoenix. Guest blogging at Feministe, Shani Hilton talks about her [...]

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This Week in Diversity: American Geography

June 11, 2010 – 3:42 pm

Oh, Arizona. Why are so many things happening in your beautiful state lately that give us reason to talk about you in these roundups? This time around, it’s a mural featuring the faces of local schoolchildren—but the schoolchildren are a diverse crowd, the mural was drawing racist slurs, and the school’s principal asked for a [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Beautiful Women of Color and White Privilege

May 21, 2010 – 4:40 pm

It’s starting to feel like summer, and that means summer movies! We start this week’s diversity linkup with a post from Feministing pointing out the whitewashing of Jennifer Lopez in The Back-Up Plan. Speaking of beautiful women of color, the newly-crowned Miss USA is a Lebanese American immigrant, Rima Fakih! It’s not clear if she’s [...]

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