Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The supporting arguements of 10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children's Books for Racism and Sexism by The Council on Interracial Books for Children connects with the reading Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us Critiquing cartoons and society by Linda Christensen. These two stories connect because in Christen's story it talks about what cartoon shows really teach children. In the shows it portrays gender roles, races and sterotypes. It goes on about how the white society is always dominant than the color society. How in cartoons it show heros are mainly the white man. It also talks about how young girl's probably think they have to look like snow white, and cinderella to be pretty. For young color girl's they would think the same way, but also think why is the princess never their color and always white. In the Council on Interracial Books for Children's story it talks about 10 ways you can find the things Christensen talks about, but in children books. It goes on talking about how you should look a the illustrations of the book. See if minority faces look stereotypically alike, or are they depicted as their own individual. Another way was checking the story line. One of the things they talk about is check out what is the problem and how it is presented. Is it the color people considered to be the problem, and does the problem of a color person get resolved by a white person. Another thing they talk about is the role of a women. Are their success base on their own initiative and intelligence or is it due to their good looks and relationship with men. Another way was to weigh the relationship between people. It talks about if whites possess the power and when minority heros do appear, are they admired for he same qualities as the white heros. These two stories have a lot of connection.

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