Presented at Simmons College April 2014
General Articles
- Diversity in ALA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults (Diversity in YA)
- Straight Talk on Race: Challenging the Stereotypes in Kids’ Books (School Library Journal)
- True or False: Multicultural Books Don’t Sell (Lee & Low)
- Why Hasn’t the Number of Multicultural Books Increased In Eighteen Years? (Lee & Low)
- It All Comes Down to This (Tanita Davis)
- Where the White People Weren’t (Kirkus)
- Who Gets to Be A Superhero? Race and Identity in Comics (NPR’s Code Switch)
Cover Controversies
- Don’t judge a book by its cover (Diversity in YA)
- It Matters If You’re Black or White: The Racism of YA Book Covers (YALSA Hub)
- Ain’t That a Shame (Justine Larbalestier)
- Justine Larbalestier’s Cover Girl (Publisher’s Weekly)
- Uncovering YA Covers: 2011 (Kate Hart)
- Whitewashing Book Covers: What Do Kids Think? (Lee and Low)
Writing Across Race Lines
- Erin Bow: Diversity in Fantasy (Diversity in YA)
- How Should We Write Across Cultures? (Mitali Perkins)
- The One Thing White Writers Get Away With, But Authors of Color Don’t (PolicyMic)
- Mary Anne Mohanraj Gets You Up to Speed, Part II (John Scalzi’s Blog – Guest Post)
- What does “authentic” mean, anyway? (Diversity in YA)
- Write What You Know: Limiting or Authentic? (Racalicious)
Awards & Selection Lists
- American Indian Youth Literature Award
- Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
- The Coretta Scott King Book Awards
- The Pura Belpré Award
- NAACP Image Awards – Literature
- Essence Magazine Literary Finalists
- Street Literature Awards
- In the Margins Book Award and Selection List
- PEN Oakland Awards
- Top Ten Books by Latino Authors
Blogs & Websites
- American Indians in Children’s Literature
- The Brown Bookshelf
- CBC Diversity (multiple publishers)
- Cynthia Leitich Smith: Multi-racial Resources
- Diverse Pages
- Diversify YA
- Diversity in YA
- Forever Young Adult: Heck YA Diversity
- Latinos in Kid Lit
- Lee & Low’s Blog
- Nerds of Color
- Rich in Color
- Tu Books, the SFF imprint of Lee & Low
