Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day promotes visibility of black people within the context of children’s literature, but through the eyes of a white male writer. After much research and analysis, it is clear that this short and simple story of a young Black boy going out to enjoy the wonders of a fresh snow must be deconstructed through an intersectional lens in order for its true effect to be understood. However, this statement reduces a complicated political and social climate into a single solution-representation, no matter the medium or actor.
My book would have him there simply because he should have been there all along.” (Paul) It’s a charming and well-meaning thought, and perhaps a reaction from a progressive white man in the 1960s. He says “None of the manuscripts I’d been illustrating featured any black kids-except for maybe token blacks in the background.
When discussing his book The Snowy Day, author Ezra Jack Keats describes his desire and inspiration to write a story about a Black boy.
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