![]() ![]() I’m not going to tell you that.’ And he’s like, ‘No, I need to know.’ And I was like, that’s a reaction that I would not and have not gotten from an adult. “I had another kid raise their hand in that classroom and say, ‘Do the cops win in the end?'” said Oshiro. Two major issues explored in Anger is a Gift are police brutality and systemic racism. When he told the kids that his book was about a group of school kids who live that same reality, they were immediately engaged and surprised that someone could write a mainstream book about issues so relevant to their lives. Oshiro recounts a school visit in the Bronx during which he entered the school through a metal detector. So I’m mostly speaking to brown and black kids about an issue that is very near and dear to them.” “Most of my school visits have been in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Harlem, and Oakland. “I think one of the other things that’s been really striking about the reactions from teenagers versus adults is that so many of the teens are saying, ‘We’re not used to stories like this,'” said Oshiro. It is the difference, for example, between white writers writing about characters of color versus writers of color writing about characters of color. Anger is a Gift is an example of #OwnVoices, which, for those who are unfamiliar with the term, refers to marginalized authors writing about characters who share aspects of their own, traditionally underrepresented identities. ![]()
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