scholarly journals Where Are the People of Color?: Representation of Cultural Diversity in the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and Advocating for Diverse Books in a Non-Post Racial Society

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven T. Bickmore ◽  
Yunying Xu ◽  
Myra Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Color Representation ◽  
The People ◽  
Book Award ◽  
National Book

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Germana
Keyword(s):  
Book Award ◽  
National Book ◽  
Acceptance Speech

In “Brave Words for a Startling Occasion,” the acceptance speech he wrote for the National Book Award presentation ceremony at which he was honored, Ellison likens himself and his fellow novelists to Menelaus and his companions trying to find their way back home in Homer’s ...

A Southern Drawl from beyond the Grave

1966 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 99-101
Author(s):  
Rene Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Book Award ◽  
National Book

The bell has finally tolled for Flannery O'Connor. The National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize have both passed up the opportunity to honor her posthumous collection of short stories, Everything that Rises Must Converge. Still, you can't help wondering what best-sellerdom could have done to a book like this. Few will read it through and most of those who stop at the halfway mark will become rabid anti-O'Connorites. Of all the first-rate American writers of the century, she is the easiest to put down. Her characters are self-conciously larger than life, her prose laden with portent in every semi-colon, her plotting so relentlessly tragic that every sentence is like a step – inevitable and often predictable – toward a witches' brew of a Grand Guignol finale. Impatient readers will feel Flannery is getting nowhere pretty slow. After some stirring and simmering of emotions, they'll quit and stop reading short of the climax, with the worst possible results. An O'Connor story is not one of those “New Yorker” Flirtations that ramble charmingly and stop coquettishly: Flannery O'Connor is no playful, teasing minx.

Reflecting Diversity

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
Lea Shaver
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
White People ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
The People ◽  
Upper Middle Class

This chapter describes the book Underpants Dance, which only depicts four white people out of all the thirty characters. However, the book still shows quite a significant underrepresentation of America's diversity. In this story, none of the people of color are important enough to have names. They serve only as a sprinkling of color in the background. The book's settings and events also reflect a distinctly upper-middle-class lifestyle. The chapter further explains that there is nothing wrong with any single children's book being culturally specific to a white, upper-income, American experience. The problem is that this pattern is so strong that children's literature as a whole is systematically less attractive or even alienating to children who do not fit that mold.

scholarly journals Semiótica discursiva aplicada a um post de transição capilar do Facebook | Discursive semiotics applied to a capillary transition Facebook status

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-233
Author(s):  
Isaac Matheus Santos Batista ◽  
Marcelo Machado Martins ◽  
Laura Susana DUQUE-ARRAZOLA
Keyword(s):  
Political Activism ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Material World ◽  
Black Race ◽  
The People ◽  
Black Resistance

Muitas pessoas negras que lutam contra o racismo têm utilizado a internet como um meio para exercer sua cidadania e ativismo político. Um exemplo disso pode ser visto nos posts de transição capilar que são frutos da resistência dos negros contra o padrão de beleza hegemônico que privilegia o branco. Neste trabalho, analisamos como se dá a geração de sentido do discurso de um post do Facebook que mostra o resultado da transição capilar feita por uma pessoa negra. Por meio da semiótica discursiva, compreendemos que esse post de transição capilar apresenta uma valorização da negritude, ao dar um novo significado, agora positivo, às origens e aos traços físicos dos negros. Além disso, percebe-se que o discurso presente no ambiente virtual se impõe para o mundo material, pois o post também visa manipular os outros a valorizarem e aceitarem os traços diacríticos da raça negra.+++++Many people of color who struggle against racism have used internet as a means to exercise their citizenship and political activism. One example of this is the capillary transition Facebook status and posts that are a result of the black resistance against the white standard of beauty. In this paper, we will analyze the generation of meaning of the discourse of a Facebook status that shows the results of a capillary transition made by a person of color. Using the discursive semiotics, we comprehended that this status presents a valuation of blackness, by giving a new meaning, this time positive, to the origins and to the phenotypes of the people of color. Furthermore, we noticed that the discourse on the virtual environmentimposes itself out to the material world, because this status also aims to manipulate others topositively value and accept the diacritic features of the black race.

Confronting Removal

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Amy Murrell Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
White Men ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Racial Ideologies ◽  
The People ◽  
Competing Ideas ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter focuses on the relationship between race and space—between competing ideas for how people of different races should reside spatially—by looking at the Union army’s various attempts to remove refugees en masse. These removals attempted to resettle the people in places far removed from active combat, including northern states, islands in the Mississippi River, and even Haiti. Some of these efforts bore a great deal of resemblance to antebellum colonization plans, and, as in those cases, black men and women in the Civil War largely resisted being sent away. Most of the removals were justified by white officials in environmental terms, driven by racial ideologies that linked particular climates and landscapes to people of color. The chapter also argues that removals were sometimes triggered by concerns about gender and sex too—by beliefs that the physical proximity of black women and white men in military encampments had made rape inevitable.

Binding consumption

2015 ◽  
pp. 29-46
Author(s):  
Alexander Joel Eastman
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Black Press ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
History Of

Dozens of newspapers written and edited by people of color flourished in the last decades of the nineteenth century in Cuba. Through an analysis of black press periodicals representative of the main political tendencies between 1879 and 1886 this article examines the economic and socio-political contexts in which the black press operated and demonstrates how Cubans of color successfully carved out a space in the market of newspaper consumption. By examining the economic forces determining circulation and readership of these periodicals, it argues that black Cubans actively negotiated the public spheres of journalism and the marketplace, becoming empowered consumers and creators of information and economic value. This article foreground debates within the black press in order to analyze the history of the Cuban civil rights movement through the perspectives of people of color and to destabilize the notion of black political homogeneity. Black journalists and leaders with national and royalist affiliations vied for political positioning and debated over how to represent the people and the struggles of the raza de color.

Ursula K. Le Guin

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra J. Lindow
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Contemporary American Literature ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Radcliffe College ◽  
Neil Gaiman ◽  
Book Award ◽  
National Book

One of the most influential voices in contemporary American literature, Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929–d. 2018) began publishing in the 1960s and soon became known for her courageous exploration of ethics, ecology, and diversity using fantastic and futuristic settings. Elevating fantasy and science fiction from pulp-era sword and sorcery and space opera, her fiction explores and condemns chauvinistic traditions of colonialism, nationalism, sexism, and racism. Through her literary approach to genre themes and settings, she inspired not only generations of genre writers but also many mainstream writers who incorporated fantastic elements in their work. Ursula Kroeber was born on in Berkeley, California. Her parents were the Alfred Kroeber, pioneering anthropologist, and Theodora Kroeber, author of Ishi in Two Worlds. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1951, earned a masters degree from Columbia University in 1952, and married historian Charles Le Guin in 1953. A prolific writer, she published more than sixty books including novels for adults and young adults, picture books, short story collections, critical nonfiction, poetry, screenplays, and works of translation. Genre and mainstream recognition occurred throughout her career. Her first fantasy novel, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), earned the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Her groundbreaking novel The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) won Hugo and Nebula Awards. She was only the second woman to receive both honors for one book. The Farthest Shore (1973) won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The Dispossessed (1974) won Locus, Nebula, and Hugo Awards. Overall, her novels alone received five Locus, four Nebulas, two Hugos, and one World Fantasy Award. In 1989 she accepted the Pilgrim Award for her critical work. In 1994, 1996, and 1997, she earned Tiptree Awards for her exploration of gender through her depiction of androgyny and alternative cultures that privilege nonheteronormative marriage. Le Guin’s lifetime achievement awards recognize her importance in American literature. In 2000, the US Library of Congress named her a Living Legend for her significant contributions to America’s cultural heritage. In 2002, she won the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers Association. In 2014, she received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In his introduction to her National Book Award acceptance speech, author Neil Gaiman describes her as someone who made him not only a better writer but also a better person as a writer.

scholarly journals Biosphere Reserves of India: Issues of Conservation and Conflict

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Umesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Traditional Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Biosphere Reserves ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The People ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
The Rich

The biosphere reserves (BRs) of India are the repository of biodiversity as well as the abode of many traditional societies. Such traditional societies derive many of their livelihood requirements from the rich biodiversity around them. All the more, the BRs also contribute to food security of the people within their premises. Many of the forest-linked activities of the traditional societies are mediated through rich traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Unfortunately, while the issues of biodiversity have been addressed at length, the cultural diversity has been relegated to the point of oblivion. The BR management, therefore, necessitates understanding not only of ecological issues, but also socio-economic and cultural issues linked with the former. The present article looks into the development of the concept of BR and issues related with it in general terms and with respect to India in particular. It also ponders over the measures to reduce pressure on BR resources.

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