Portrayals of Race and Gender: Sentiment in 100 Years of Children’s Literature

• DOI: 10.1145/3530190.3534811
• Publication Date: 2022-06-24T16:21:57Z
• Authors: Anjali Adukia; Callista Christ; Anjali Das; Ayush Raj
• Keywords: Sentiment Analysis

The way that people of different identities are portrayed in children's books can send subconscious messages about how positively or negatively children should think with those identities. These then shape the next generation's perceptions and attitudes people, which have important implications for belief formation resource allocation. In this paper, we make two contributions: (1) examine depiction race gender award-winning from last century, (2) consumption these relates to local beliefs. First, analyze sentiment associated famous individuals mentioned books. While surrounding women is positive overall, on average, see Black more often negative Mainstream books, while White sentiment. Because United States depict disguises intersectional portrayals women. Books center underrepresented likely portray all characters A century ago, were much less spoken than men, but average females males has converged over time. difference connected also decreased time, there still remains a substantial gap. Second, relationship between book purchases beliefs understand potential being transmitted parts society. We towards larger proportion who believe certain advantages because color their skin angry racism exists. Understanding may be implicitly – explicitly sent through highly influential lend insight into factors attitudes.