The Diverse BookFinder is a free online resource that provides data about thousands of picture books published since 2002 depicting Black and Indigenous people and People of Color. Using this data, this study looks at the publishing trends from 2015 to 2020 in terms of race/culture and unique categories developed by the Diverse BookFinder that identify how people in these books are depicted. This study found an increasing trend to publish books with illustrations of characters that are racially ambiguous, with no race or culture specified in the text (the Diverse BookFinder tags these characters as “Brown-Skinned and/or Race Unspecified”).

Diverse BookFinder 是一个免费的在线资源，提供自 2002 年以来出版的数千本描绘黑人和土著人民以及有色人种的图画书的数据。使用这些数据，本研究根据种族/文化和由 Diverse BookFinder 开发的独特类别来审视 2015 年至 2020 年的出版趋势，这些类别确定了这些书中的人物是如何被描述的。这项研究发现，出版带有种族模糊人物插图的书籍的趋势越来越明显，文本中没有指定种族或文化（Diverse BookFinder 将这些人物标记为“棕色皮肤和/或未指定种族”）。