What We Teach About Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children’s Books*
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Abstract. Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters. We use computational tools to characte
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Original Title: In the mainstream canon of US children’s books, Black and Latino characters are underrepresented relative to their population share. Female characters are increasingly present over time but appear less often in text than in images, suggesting greater symbolic than substantive inclusion.