lack of Diversity in YA LIT

This article discusses a little about the studies of the unjust and nearly complete lack of adequate diversity in youth and children’s literature. Given the demographics of the United States in which according to the article that describes how today more than 1/5 children in in the United States are immigrants or children of immigrants. A recent study showed that 8.8 percent of the 3,400 plus books that the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin were multicultural (contained non-white protagonists).  The article goes on to describe ways in which to resolve this and reasons for the importance of further research as well as how Counter-storytelling (counter stereotype/ anti-single storytelling) works. This article will help me with my research for my final paper!!

Reference: 

Hughes-Hassell, S. (2013). Multicultural Young Adult Literature as a Form of Counter-Storytelling. The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 83(3), 212-228.