December 10, 2014 - 17:06
Our ten week project explored the diversity of the sources, essays and novels that we read in our classes. Although much of our research was based on assumptions and was warped give our class choices (Gothic Literature, for example as a heavily white-authored, English class) we found the data regarding race particurally troublesome, 91% of the authros we read are white or caucasion. This just shows how little racial diversity there is in our readings.
We complied other information about the authors and editors of each of our assignments and could most likely draw more conclusions than the lack of global, racial, gender, educational, and economical diversity, but it would be interesting to do that with a larger pool of data or data that is more mixed (instead of pulling from mainly humanities courses) to see if there would be a different conclusion. In any event, even if the conclusion was the same, in my opinion there is enough of a distance between the percentage of authors of color and white authors to cause a need for further inquiry about it.