No me veo: A lack of Hispanic racial representation in the Texas Bluebonnet Award Books
Keywords:
diversity, Texas Buebonnet Award Books, children's literature, Hispanic representation , racial representation, award booksAbstract
The purpose of this study was to identify the extent to which the characters in the books on the 2020-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List (TBAML) reflect the diversity of Texas students in grades 3-6 in terms of race. The researchers used content analysis to collect demographic data about the main characters in the books on the 2020-2021 TBAML. The researchers collected data from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) concerning the racial demographics of Texas students in grades 3-6, who are the readers of the books on the TBAML. The researchers compared the data collected from the books to the data collected from TEA in order to determine whether the racial diversity of the targeted readers was represented by the main characters on the TBAML. The researchers then compared the 2020-2021 data to a previous study entitled, Exploring diversity representation in literature for children: A content analysis of the 2015-2016 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List (Lee, 2017).
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