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Rooting out racism in children's books

  • Written by Lindsay Pérez Huber, Associate Professor, College of Education , California State University, Long Beach
imageChildren's books need better representation of people of color.Ariel Skelley/Getty Images

Ten years ago, I sat down with my then 8-year-old daughter to read a book before bedtime. The book was sort of a modern-day “boy who cried wolf” story, only it was about a little girl named Lucy who had a bad habit of telling lies.

In the story,...

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