tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232965658384447649.post2574378317089885514..comments2023-12-27T11:59:14.632-08:00Comments on Eva's Book Addiction: Encouraging Color in Kids' BooksEva Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921035998297319995noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232965658384447649.post-41588648290998234782009-08-28T07:58:17.506-07:002009-08-28T07:58:17.506-07:00Yes, I actually used that subject heading to find ...Yes, I actually used that subject heading to find a book (couldn't remember the author of the Dyamonde Daniel, nor how to spell "dyamonde") - and had to blink at some of the books that came up. It may be a way of finding books with black characters - and that comes in very handy sometimes. But yeah, we don't use a subject heading to indicate white characters because that's the status quo. Just as a matter of interest, the picture book Jamaica and Brianna by Juanita Hamill has a subject heading for African Americans and for Asian Americans - but of course the book is about, to quote the CIP summary - "Jamaica hates wearing hand-me-down boots when her friend Brianna has pink fuzzy ones."Eva Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921035998297319995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232965658384447649.post-7126272690786807592009-08-27T21:07:41.666-07:002009-08-27T21:07:41.666-07:00Well, at LAPL these books are not hard to find, ex...Well, at LAPL these books are not hard to <i>find</i>, exactly, because any book that features black characters is cataloged with "African Americans--Juvenile fiction" as a subject heading, regardless of how or even whether the book actually connects to "The African-American Experience" as a subject. I think it's a very relevant subject for a book like <i>Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry</i> but maybe not for something like <i>The Stories Julian Tells</i>. <br /><br />On one hand, using that subject heading can mean: "We know there are only a few of these books, so we want to make an extra effort to make them accessible to anyone who wants them, because we do not want them to be overlooked." But it can also have a marginalizing meaning: "These books don't feature 'normal' white characters."<br /><br />I know that isn't the point of your post or the linked article, but it is a related subject. =)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com