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Tagging PoC authorship on LibraryThing
Jan. 19th, 2009 10:49 amInspired by ![[info]](https://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
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."
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."
