Trip to Barnes and Noble

For my SME class, I had to go to a bookstore and find books that were about light and sound... but after a long (boring) while of doing that.. I decided to venture over to the children's section and look at the books (my boyfriend was absolutely thrilled that I dragged him along). There were so many things that happened within the first few minutes in that section that my boyfriend did that we talked about in class it was almost scary. First of all, him and i are huge history fanatics, so we went over to the history section and looked at their selection. Without telling him anything about what we talked about in class, he picked up a book about the Iroquois Indians and said "Hey I totally remember reading this book in school." And when I flipped through the pages... it was sooo stereotypical, it was unreal. I literally LOL'd and said "Do you have any idea how incorrect and stereotypical this book probably is?" and he looked and it and was like "no, I don't see anything wrong with it." I was shocked... the cover first of all showed an Indian in the typical headdress and dress that we see in like the movie Pocahontas. What I found even more disturbing was there was a book on a different Indian tribe right next to this book, and on the cover the Indians portrayed looked IDENTICAL to the Iroquois Indians.. Now I don't know about you but I think its pretty common sense that not all Indians looked the same... but unfortunately we are never told or taught any differently. So I asked my boyfriend what he thought an Iroquois Indian looked like in comparison to any other kind of Indian... and he had no idea. And the more I thought about it, neither did I.

Totally random but I found that pretty crazy.

I also went over and saw a book called "Barack Obama. Son of Promise. Child of Hope." It surprises me to find a children's book written about the presidential candidate. I guess I don't really remember ever reading any books specifically for children about the child hood of a potential president.

and wow.... I'm super excited!! While writing this post, i looked up the book and realized that this Obama book was written by the same woman who wrote Bronx Masquerade!! Talk about a coincidence!!!