![]() ![]() I’m only shocked and a bit scared when parents buy this story for their kids to consume.Īs a parent to a two-year-old, part of me sometimes wishes in selective censorship, but that doesn’t really mean I’ll have a safe child who has good judgment and knows how to move through and contribute well to the world. ![]() ![]() I feel sad and angry at Brunhoff that there the adults now who open Babar and don’t just automatically see how harmful a story it is in the way it contributes to xenophobic hysteria in these times. In reading books by non-white authors in non-European and non-American settings during a time when I was situating myself within my own identity, it only became natural for me to consume art with an eye always on perspective. If it were, every parent with a buck would be raising the mastermind they think they’re raising. Multilingualism in and of itself isn’t the solution to critical literacy. ![]() It doesn’t help that some Punjabi people always sound mad when they talk. I hated it back then, of course, because it was Sunday school, extra homework, and it made me the weird Asian kid whose parents could but wouldn’t talk to her in English. So how did I know at age five to be skeptical of Babar ? Maybe I didn’t right away, but I got there pretty fast, and I think it’s because I was raised to read, write, and speak beyond the White gaze. ![]()
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