[bksvol-discuss] Re: Describing Pictures In Children's Books
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:57:37 -0800 (PST)
Good idea. I've done that when the names of the kids
in the picture are evident from the text, and
sometimes that itself indicates ethnicity.
In the case of Latinos or Hispanics--and I forget
which is the preferable term--one has to be careful,
because they aren't all Mexican, and those from
Central American hate being called Mexican and vice
versa, as I learned when working in ESL. Pride of
country is important. And I can't tell from appearance
what Asian country a person is from. I think the
safest thing is a more general term, if names cannot
be used.
It sounds like your girls are having fun with the
project. That's great.
G. Cindy
--- Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for your input on describing
> pictures. My group of
> girls has scanned several several books for young
> children, and we got
> bogged down in writing really good descriptions for
> the pictures. One
> book has a Mexican boy in it, and we didn't know if
> we should call him
> Latino, Mexican, or just a dark-skinned boy. We
> finally realized that we
> could just call him by name since it was mentioned
> in the book, Duh!
> Lol. We've had some adventures, a lot of laughs, and
> even a few paper
> cuts along the way.
>
> Monica Willyard
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