Well, This Looks Interesting

[chomiji]

So I found the following while poking around in some of the things rachelmanija had linked in her post about the on-the-cover whitewashing of the lead character in Justine Larbelastier's novel Liar. And coincidentally, I had already found it earlier today, on the previous break, when I was looking for people talking about Verb Noire on the Intarwebs. Clearly, Someone Is Trying to Tell Me Something:

White Readers Meet Black Authors
http://www.welcomewhitefolks.blogspot.com/
"Your official invitation into the African American section of the bookstore! A sometimes serious, sometimes light-hearted plea for EVERYBODY to give a black writer a try."

Comments

[orvida.livejournal.com]

Yes i've read other books besides those but that was the first series of books i was given and so i ran with them for a few years but after a while i got into reading materials, other main stream books but to me the color of an author never even came across my mind it was what were in the pages that intrigue me the most.

I try to instill in my daughters to pick up a book and read no matter what the story is about as long as they read it.

But a lot of the black authors that i see are self publishers.

So i guess they don't have to worry about the companies throwing there books out, and it is very sad indeed to read that a
lot of the publishing companies are denying a person of (color)/ (minorities) the chance to possibly fulfill their dreams by tossing aside their hard work and efforts to get a book put out there for our or anybodies enjoyment.