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By: Marc Aronson

Marc Aronson — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:09:48 +0000

why don’t you post these stories to the DCP blog — that might be an interesting strand for them, what young black males have to read, how it is sold, packaged, shared.

By: Vicky Alvear Shecter

Vicky Alvear Shecter — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:58:23 +0000

Excellent post. Have you read Olugemisola Rhuday-Perkovich’s Eight-Grade Superzero? Here was an African-American boy character who was sensitive and community-oriented but didn’t come across as “soft” or feminine. I also heard Varian Johnson speak about his boy (main) character in his YA novel, Saving Maddie–and the challenges that came with the fact that the book featured a girl AND a pink cover! He admitted that boys wouldn’t be caught dead reading it. He advised his male readers to take the jacket off so they could read the book without fear of harassment. I know the issues you bring up are much broader but I found it fascinating that even when we have strong, sensitive African-American boys in books, publishers add another layer of difficult with gender stereotyping.

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