Image from: 5 Experts on How to Foster Joy in Black Children by Ralinda Watts
These are books highlighting and celebrating diversity and differences in joyful affirmations. Since many books relating to diversity speak to challenges and conflict, it is important to also point to books that celebrate joy of identity, self-esteem, and self-confidence. These Joyful Affirmations books provide some examples.
Joyful Affirmations are similar to the Diverse Book Finder's category Beautiful Life: A Focus on Identity, which includes "books featuring BIPOC in which race, ethnicity, tribal affiliation, culture, im/migration, and/or religious, sacred, or origin stories are central to the story. These books explicitly focus on the diverse expressions of human experience, depending on these elements to drive the storyline."
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