These Black Protagonists Defy Stereotypes


These Black Protagonists Defy Stereotypes | Read Woke

By Cicely Lewis 
slj.com
June 29, 2023



In Jerry Craft’s Newbery Award–winning graphic novel, New Kid, the librarian recommends that Maury, a Black student, read The Mean Streets of South Uptown: A Gritty Tale of Survival because he is Black. She tells him, “You’re really going to identify with DaQuell, the protagonist. He’s suffered so much growing up in poverty without a father.”

Maury responds, “Ummm…thanks Miss Brickner. But my dad is the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.”

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