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On Diversity and Reading: Amplifying BIPOC Authors and Voices
This post was also posted on my original blog, Reading Diversely. If you are here because of that, please consider subscribing for more updates. When I started the “Reading Diversely” book project in 2017, I was frustrated and I was aware that the “mainstream” books that received marketing money and were likely to be recommended and receive awards most often were dominated by white men. I wasn’t angry. Yet. Over the course of that year, I fell back in love with reading, but I also became increasingly aware that the problem was so much broader and so much more pervasive than I had realized. I was shocked by the number…