Race Representations in Children's Picture Books and Its Impact on the Development of Racial Identity and Attitudes
This paper will look at how (if) race representations in children's picture books have changed since the twentieth century, and whether children's racial attitudes have changed throughout the last ninety years. Furthermore, the paper will discuss challenges within multicultural picture books for children, and provide resources for positive racial and ethnic representations within picture books.
This paper was nominated for the Libraries Undergraduate Research Award by Jeanne Armstrong, faculty in Western Washington University's Western Libraries.