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Dr. Booker, CEO and founder of Hey Carter! Books, discussed the creation of her books, which aim to positively represent Black boys and promote Black joy. She explained the challenges of self-publishing and marketing these books, including the backlash she faced.
My book, Brown Boy Joy was featured on Netflix where Joe Scott read my book.
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Dr. Booker, CEO and founder of Hey Carter! Books, discussed the creation of her books, which aim to positively represent Black boys and promote Black joy. She explained the challenges of self-publishing and marketing these books, including the backlash she faced.
My book, Brown Boy Joy was featured on Netflix where Joe Scott read my book.
And when I showed him the book, he's like, Mommy, it's me. And I'm just like, dude, it's been you. It's always been you. You're on all the covers of these books.
So I always say my books are for Black children. They are written for Black children, but they are not just for Black children. They are for all children.
One specific Black clash that I get a lot in Brown Boy Joy is I have a page in there where the kids, the boys, are playing with toys, and one of the boy is holding a doll. That's literally all you see is he's holding a doll.
And so I know that has impacted him. Also, I think he's just really centered in his Blackness. He's so far ahead of where I was as a child. I think I was, I know at his age, I was busy trying to conform to Whiteness, busy trying to hide my Blackness.