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WHAT? REALLY? my kids and grandkids read all her books
Laura Ingalls Wilder's name removed over charges of racism
American Library Association changes award name after reviewing 'stereotypical attitudes'
Associated Press, Chicago
Edited from https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/24/laura-ingalls-wilders-name-removed-from-book-award-over-racial-concerns
Mon 25 Jun 2018
The American Library Association has voted to remove the name of Laura Ingalls Wilder from a major children's book award over concerns about the manner in which the author portrayed African Americans and Native Americans.
The board of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) made the unanimous decision to change the name on Saturday, at a meeting in New Orleans. The name of the prize was changed from the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal to the Children's Literature Legacy Award.
The association said Wilder "includes expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with ALSC's core values".
The ALSC said Wilder's work continued to be published and read but her "legacy is complex" and "not universally embraced".
Wilder was born in 1867 and died in 1957. She is best known for her eight Little House on the Prairie novels, about pioneer life in the American west, which were published between 1932 and 1943.
In 2010, British broadcaster Samira Ahmed wrote for the Guardian: "Wilder has a special status in American culture despite posthumous allegations of racism. The Osage nation, according to biographer Pamela Smith Hill, still condemns her work. The novels are full of phrases that are unacceptable today."
This includes a line in Little House on the Prairie expunged only later by Wilder herself that said Kansas had 'no people, only Indians'.
American Library Association changes award name after reviewing 'stereotypical attitudes'
Associated Press, Chicago
Edited from https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/24/laura-ingalls-wilders-name-removed-from-book-award-over-racial-concerns
Mon 25 Jun 2018
The American Library Association has voted to remove the name of Laura Ingalls Wilder from a major children's book award over concerns about the manner in which the author portrayed African Americans and Native Americans.
The board of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) made the unanimous decision to change the name on Saturday, at a meeting in New Orleans. The name of the prize was changed from the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal to the Children's Literature Legacy Award.
The association said Wilder "includes expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with ALSC's core values".
The ALSC said Wilder's work continued to be published and read but her "legacy is complex" and "not universally embraced".
Wilder was born in 1867 and died in 1957. She is best known for her eight Little House on the Prairie novels, about pioneer life in the American west, which were published between 1932 and 1943.
In 2010, British broadcaster Samira Ahmed wrote for the Guardian: "Wilder has a special status in American culture despite posthumous allegations of racism. The Osage nation, according to biographer Pamela Smith Hill, still condemns her work. The novels are full of phrases that are unacceptable today."
This includes a line in Little House on the Prairie expunged only later by Wilder herself that said Kansas had 'no people, only Indians'.
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