Description
Conduct a critical content analysis of the children’s book “I am Perfectly Designed” by Karamo Brown. Attached are the instructions for the paper and sources to use and cite in the paper, an example/ sample paper has also been attached for reference. Please also include the book “Is Everyone Really Equal?” By Robin DiAngelo and Ozlem Sensoy as the top reference and include citation in the essay. Please only use these as sources.
•How is the character with [social identity(s)] portrayed? •Is the portrayal consistent with what you have learned about [social identity(s)] this semester? •If reading this text was your only exposure to what life as [social identity(s)] may be like, what would your understanding of [social identity(s)] be? •How would you interact with people from [social identity(s)] based solely on this text?•Are there stereotypes in the text?•Is there tokenism?•Are there any social groups that are invisible within the text?•What message does the story line send?•Who does this narrative benefit? Who does it harm?•Does this book reinforce or counteract messages that teach children to feel inferior or superior because of their skin color, gender, family income, able-bodiedness, or type of family structure?•Who wrote and produced the text?•What social identities are missing/not representedin the text?Critical Race Content Analysis questions from Table 1:•What identities or characteristics are assigned by race, class, gender, immigrations status, language, etc.?•What roles do Characters of Color play (i.e. central, tangential, hierarchical)? In what ways does the story become raced, or not?•What are the dominant ideologies and how do they operate (e.g. white supremacy, patriarchy, cultural deficits, other forms of power)?•How are the realities and/or experiences of People of Color represented, or not (cultural authenticity vs. generalizations, simplifications)?•Is there a context to situate race and/or its intersections (historical, political, social, geographic, temporal, etc.), or not?•How is focalization of the story constructed?•How does power operate within the narrative devices of the story (i.e., vantage point, story closure, assumptions)?•Who has power? Who has agency?•How are dominant ideologies/deficit perspectives challenged? How does resistance emerge?
