Tagging PoC authorship on LibraryThing

[marydell]

Inspired by deepad 's very helpful post for white people about how to be an ally, I went through my collection of books on librarything and tagged everything with a PoC author, as a starting point for reading more books by people of color.

The resulting list is embarrassingly small, includes a bunch of mangas, and includes only one African-American author.  Most of these books haven't bubbled to the top of my reading list yet, either, so they're tagged unread--including one I really need to read ASAP, Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White. Still, if you're looking to increase the diversity of your reading list, you might find something there that interests you. 

It's an eye-opening exercise and I'd encourage other librarythingers to try it, not so much for self-education as to make it easier for everyone to discover and support PoC authors.  Here's another thinger's "PoC author" tag list, and here are all books tagged "PoC." 

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Interesting exercise. It sounds like one that more white people should do.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

I agree! Although some responses to my xpost in the LT LJ community (http://community.livejournal.com/librarything/87704.html?view=541336) indicate otherwise.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

A couple of those responses were a lot less than helpful.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

In their defense, "less than helpful" is the prevailing LJ meme at the moment...

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

So it seems.

[rydra_wong]

*wanders by*

You might be interested in 50books_poc -- basically, it's a comm started for people who want to make a conscious push to increase the diversity of their reading.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I joined it after reeding deepad's post. I've been too busy reading LJ and picking my jaw up off the floor to go through the booklist and add samples to my kindle, but I'm going to try to do that today.

[moondancerdrake.livejournal.com]

If you like Specfic Carl Brandon Society is a good place to check out to get list of well recommended books by writers of color. :)