As a Latina (ok 1/2 Latina, whatever that means), I definitely want my kid to learn Spanish and be exposed to positive Latino role models in media. So, I was fascinated to read about the research and thinking that went into the development of one of his favorite characters: Dora the Explorer.
[Producer Brown] Johnson… had recently been to a conference on media, race and gender — where she learned that Latinos aren’t terribly well represented in children’s television. And she was out to change that.“One of our goals with Dora was to position the whole idea of being multicultural as being super-special,” Johnson says.
