About Kemet Kids LLC
Book Publishing Company
Founded in 2016, by Dad and Author A.D. Largie, Kemet Kids LLC is a renowned independent children’s book publisher.
The company is committed to delivering beautifully illustrated educational and diverse media content for kids 0 to 12 years old and publishes over 10 new titles per year.
We believe that it is important for kids not only to see themselves reflected in the content they consume but also to see people who don't look like them. As the graphic above displays 86% of all children’s book characters are either of Caucasian ethnicity or non-human origins leaving only 14% of all children’s book characters to reflect the remaining diverse assortment of kids in the United States.
This comes from 2015 publishing statistics compiled by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the School of Education, the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the percentage of books depicting characters from diverse backgrounds.
More than 70 years ago the famous “Doll Test” experiment by doctors Kenneth and Mamie Clark that was used as evidence in Brown v. Board of Education case to reverse the law of the land at the time which was "separate but equal”. The Clark’s concluded that racial conditions exhibited by the “Doll Test” resulted in “African American children developing a feeling of inferiority that may never be undone”. We believe that a lack of diversity in kids content manifests later as racial intolerance and unconscious bias in adults.
This comes from 2015 publishing statistics compiled by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the School of Education, the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the percentage of books depicting characters from diverse backgrounds.
More than 70 years ago the famous “Doll Test” experiment by doctors Kenneth and Mamie Clark that was used as evidence in Brown v. Board of Education case to reverse the law of the land at the time which was "separate but equal”. The Clark’s concluded that racial conditions exhibited by the “Doll Test” resulted in “African American children developing a feeling of inferiority that may never be undone”. We believe that a lack of diversity in kids content manifests later as racial intolerance and unconscious bias in adults.
Kemet Kids Publishing is a for-profit social enterprise aligned to impact the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Focused on impacting Goal #10.
