It’s one of the major reasons I cited in my research paper for why, in our increasingly globalized world, educators should introduce students to diverse literature. When I first encountered Let the Circle Be Unbroken as a teenager, I didn’t hate it I just didn’t connect with it. And I thought a lot about it while rereading Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor, because it’s clearly about a life very different from my European American one. I wondered a lot about her observation while researching the amount of diversity which could be found in children’s literature for a recent graduate course. Now that the school has become more culturally diverse, the multicultural books apparently have become more popular. Unfortunately, she found that very few students in her predominantly white school checked them out. A former librarian friend of mine used to ensure that their school library’s shelves carried multicultural books.
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