Multicultural and Anti Racist literature

The issues of fighting racism and stereotypes in children’s literature have been addressed in two ways: through multicultural or anti racist literature. These issues have been presented in bodies of work for the very young to older children. Patricia Polacco and Eloise Greenfield have revolutionized children’s literature with their stories that address societies needs. Greenfield’s style is distinctive from Polacco’s; her stories address multiculturalism, whereas Pollaco’s is anti racist literature. …

…that low-prejudice children stated significantly more negative evaluations and examples of Whites and more cross-race similarity than high-prejudice children. High-prejudice children became significantly less prejudiced in their evaluations after the discussion. Changes were greater in children whose low-prejudice partner made more statements about cross-race similarity (e.g. "everyone can be mean sometime"), along with more positive Black and negative White evaluations. Low-prejudice partners remained unprejudiced. Dyadic discussion may be a useful context for reducing prejudice.