Yes, definitely. And I think that's why there are Newbery winners with Pacific Islander, Native American, and Asian protagonists so much earlier than African-American. There's a concern with diversity from the beginning of the award, but in the early years it's more for the sake of picturesque exoticness than for social justice or representativeness.
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Date: 2013-09-13 04:36 pm (UTC)