#diversity check

[kimyoonmiauthor]

Diversity in children's books, infographics.

I think these explain themselves, but for low vision users I'll type out the year+percentages.

2012

(Animals were last and white people had 93% of the market)

2015

0.9% American Indians/First Nations

2.4% Latinx

3.3% Asian Pacifics/Asian Pacific Americans

7.6% African/African American

(14.2)

12.5% Animals, trucks, etc

73.3% White

2018

1% American Indians/First Nations

5% Latinx

7% Asian Pacifics/Asian Pacific Americans

10% African/African American

(23%)

27% Animals, trucks, etc

50% White

So having these two infographics, you think everyone would get better and learn something, right? RIGHT?

2023

2% American Indians/First Nations

7% BIPOC/Unspecified

7% Latinx

11% Asian Pacifics/Asian Pacific Americans

12% African/African American

(39%)

28% White

33% Animals, trucks, etc

What's with the unspecified PoC? Mixed race YES. Unspecified in general is a ?.?

Animals have more representation than humans. Yay, we have the diversity of humans we need. (Obvious sarcasm) People are *cough* chickening out.

16% Black African

0.9% West Asian*

13% Asian

3% Indigenous

8% Latine

0.2% Pacific Islander

10% BIPOC

8% Multicultural

Note they put "Arab" but this is an error and they shouldn't have done it since Arab refers to people from Saudia Arabia.

CCBC's Diversity Statistics show promising growth in diverse children's books in 2024, but room for progress

In 2024, for the first time, over half (51%) of the titles the CCBC received had significant BIPOC content. This marks an increase from 49%

Is it improving? Or is it that publishers are not paying attention to shifting demographics of readers? <- Genuine question to think about in my Jewish mode of rhetoric.

All stats are from here: https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/category/on-books-and-publishing/

[beeztfup]

my squad >>> @collectingmoments

[eclecticcreative]

Let’s make this clear... PoCs are not that hard to find.

White person whines things like, OMG, I have to make friends with PoCs in order to adopt a PoC child. And things like, I have to talk to a PoC in order to write PoCs? I have to read PoC books in order to write a book about PoCs?

PoCs are not going extinct. (And neither are you, paranoid white people) There is the internet (for those who are on the internet). There are cities which are integrated. And you are whining to us PoCs about how you can’t find or make any PoC friends and how love trumps all and guess what you’re color blind because cultural differences don’t need to be honored and knowing how racism effects people isn’t that important anyway... I think you are whining your heads off about the fact that you want to live a racist life, in your white bubble, but don’t want to have it pointed out to you, because OMG, reverse discrimination and how dare we call you the R word which has nothing to do with ableism. Parenting takes a whole lot more than love. And those adoption ads and those gross movies that say love is all you need won’t help you when you are dealing with your child being bullied in school and you are lecturing to them that they really didn’t get racism/ethnicism from your 99.99% white school (and they are the only one in their class that is their ethnicity) because why? You should be color blind and you know, kids are just that way. You can love and be ignorant and still hurt people. It won’t help you to spot the fact that your child might be being bullied by their teachers because of the color of their skin, nor the lack of education for their ethnicity. It won’t help you answer their questions when they feel lost and alone because you’ve isolated them from their cultural group entirely. It won’t help you from spouting the white savior complex to your kid. So my advice, birth-righted people, shut the hell up about love being everything in parenting, especially if you’re white and adopting a PoC child. ‘cause I’ve fought it and I’ve won. You’re being adoptist and probably racist.