Episode 19

What We Teach about Race and Gender -- with Anjali Adukia

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September 29th, 2021

21 mins 22 secs

Season 2

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About this Episode

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