Noted: Myers was pointing to research done by the Cooperative Children?s Book Centre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which has counted the number of children?s books featuring people of colour since 1985. Ten years ago, of 3,200 books received by the centre, 171 were about black people, 95 about American Indians, 78 about Asians and 63 about Latinos. Last year, these numbers had fallen, with 93 of 3,200 books about black people, 34 about American Indians, 69 about Asians and 57 about Latinos.
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