Choosing a topic for my final project

I chose to focus on Asian Indian children’s and young adult literature because I feel that this is a population that is often not focused on. In many of my teaching classes, other sub-groups of the Asian population are read about but I have never learned much about Asian Indian literature. I am particularly interested in this topic of literature because I am half Indian. My father is from India and it would have been nice to have had access to books when I was growing up that I could relate to and learn from as well. I was curious to see how many books that focused on this genre were actually available and to my surprise, I was able to locate a lot of books in relation to this topic. I was also curious to read these books from an insider’s perspective to see if it would be easier to find stereotypes written about the culture. I thought that I would enjoy reading books written about Asian Indians because I could relate to some of the stories and be familiar with the traditions and customs as well. Unfortunately, I do not know as much about my culture as I would like and I have viewed this project as a good way to find out more.