Books shape how children learn about society and the world. Analyzing over 1,100 award-winning children’s books, Anjali Adukia talks about what artificial intelligence (AI) tools can tell us about how race and gender are depicted to children.
Paper:
“What We Teach About Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children’s Books” (by A. Adukia, A. Eble, E. Harrison, H.B. Runesha, T. Szasz)
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29123/w29123.pdf
Recommendation:
"Salt" by Nayyirah Waheed
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18585282-salt