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Jamaican Literacy Activist Puts More Books Into the Hands of Children Isolated By COVID-19 Restrictions
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Jamaican literacy activist puts more books into the hands of children isolated by COVID-19 restrictions
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After her daughter Marley started 1,000 Black Girl Books to find and support books that Black girls could identify with, Janice Johnson Dias found herself being strongly encouraged by her 16-year-old daughter to write a book about how to raise a daughter like Marley.
Dias, who is an associate professor of sociology at John Jay College in New York, is the co-founder of Grassroots Community Foundation. Every year Grassroots holds a summer camp for girls and their parents to try to empower girls and their caregivers.
She is 10 years into the work of Grassroots, but it was the work Marley was doing that kept prompting people to ask Dias about how Marley came to be the change-maker that she is.
“When I was a kid in school in Richardson ISD, I was really the only little girl who looked like me. The books that we read reflected that. I just didn’t want that for kids these days,” Pugh said.
Pugh, who has been an educator for two decades, recently released her new children’s books the Lil Tracey Series.
“I really needed my daughter to see this. I wanted to increase the visibility of the Black, female protagonist in children’s books,” Pugh said. “For me, it was about establishing a footprint of change through youth literacy development.”
Pugh has partnered with the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign founded by Marley Dias, a teen author and activist, to donate books worldwide in order to increase the visibility of Black, female protagonists in children’s books.
By Pooja Makhijani | Jan 08, 2021
What was once considered the archetypical American household a mom and dad of the same racial or ethnic background and in their first marriage, providing care and stability for their 2.2 offspring is now far from the norm. Life choices that decades ago would have been scandalous or illegal, such as divorce, or interracial or same-sex marriage, are now more acceptable and also protected by law. Women, queer people, and others with marginalized identities, especially, have benefitted from these shifts. This is all to say: as family structures have changed, so too has parenting, and so have books for caregivers and about caregiving.
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