Take lord of the Rings for example, there’s a lot of truth to be found within it’s pages. Can anyone honestly tell me that there is history be be found in Tolkien’s work? Just look at the maps in the back of the books, NO ONE can make that up!
Amazon is so serious about its next big thing that it hired three women to do nothing but try on size 8 shoes for its Web reviews. Full time.
Open Thread: May 13 – 26
New on bibliogrrrl: “Open Thread: May 13 – 26” by Joss . Posted on May 13, 2012 at 10:00AM .
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Okay everyone, grab your pencils grab your notebooks and take a seat. Cate Matthews (@cateematthews on both Twitter and Tumblr, follow her) is about to break it all down for you guys.
Her video very quickly and simply shows us the way we’ve all been taught to default the people that we envision in books and generally in our minds as “white”. Unless we’re heavily (HEAVILY!) spoon-fed other bits of information to say otherwise, which even then sometimes fails.
Cate also shares some interesting research that shows the staggeringly low representation of minorities in recently published children’s books and the top 10 box-office movies.
This video was sent to me by chronic-nostalgia (thanks!).
P.S. - Cate’s name looked familiar to me and I then realized that she’s the same person that made this tweet.
Unfortunately it went over a lot of peoples’ heads (They didn’t get the connection it had to Rick Santorum and a foot-in-mouth comment he’d recently made but I thought it was funny)
P.P.S - Cate gets bonus points for the Squirtle and Charmander pics up on her wall in the background.
Notes from thd Bibliosphere for for 04 May 2012 through 07 May 2012
New on bibliogrrrl: “Notes from thd Bibliosphere for for 04 May 2012 through 07 May 2012” by Joss . Posted on May 10, 2012 at 05:00AM .
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That’s a pretty bad attitude to have, Lexie. And it was stated pretty clearly in the book.
What does Lexie expect? For Rue to say “by the way, I’m black. You know, in case you missed that very clear description earlier”?
