Mutil-ethnic literature

While looking for articles for the project I found this website about why multi-ethnic literature should be used. The article mainly focuses on Asian-American literature. I found this article interesting because of one line in particular. It was in part of the rationale for using multi-ethnic literature in the classroom.

It said "So students of non Caucasian descent can read about people from their ancestral background. Let readers have experiences that speak to their own lives. By the year 2000, enrollment of minority students will be anywhere from 35 to 50%."

I found this line interesting because I had never thought that people would look to children's books to get information. Now that I think about it, it does make sense and if written correctly there is no reason that people wouldn't be able to get correct information from children's literature.

The article mentioned the characteristic's that a multi-ethnic piece of literature should have and I agree if those are there then the book contains factual information that could be used to teach children about their heritage.

Here is the link to the website so that you can have a look at it too!

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/asialit.htm