Figure 3: Frequency of Racial and Cultural Groups Presented by Themes in Picture Books

Themes identified in fiction and narrative non-fiction picture books featuring characters of underrepresented groups and the percentage of each racial and cultural group within each theme

Source: Krista Maywalt Aronson, Brenna D. Callahan, and Anne Sibley O’Brien, “Messages Matter: Investigating the Thematic Content of Picture Books Portraying Underrepresented Racial and Cultural Groups,” Sociological Forum 33, no. 1 (March 2018): 165–185; https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.1240 Get the data
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