FAQ

[sanguinity]

Frequently Asked Questions

General
Why make a special point of reading authors of color?
Is the challenge going to be hard (depressing, unpleasant, just like having homework)?
Who counts as a 'person of color'?
How can I find out if an author is a person of color?
Where can I find book recommendations/suggestions?
I think the comm would be

Comments

[sylvan_dweller]

Is there a running list somewhere of POC authors?

or,

How can you tell if an author is a POC?

Just a thought that some people might be having that would be good for a FAQ.

[sanguinity]

Google Images, to see if there's an author photo on the web anywhere. And yes, the categories box at the bottom of the Wikipedia page, if the bio doesn't say outright.

The thing that I find frustrating is that you only ever get confirmation that someone is POC; you never get confirmation that an author isn't. Yeah, sure the photo may be kinda white-looking, but that doesn't rule out a Native author, nor a Latin@ author, nor Middle Eastern or North African. So you poke at the internets for a while, and eventually decide, "No, it's not just that I've hit five pages in a row where no one saw fit to mention the author's ethnic heritage; they're not mentioning it because she's white and the people writing these pages think that means there's nothing to mention."

[sanguinity]

Hahaha! I was toying with tagging that one "booklist" and being done with it. (Feel free to use that option yourself, if you want.)

BTW, it's nice to see you back. :-)

[chipmunk_planet]

Maybe add that it's best not to wait until you have 50 (or some other large number greater than, say, ten) reviews and post them all at once? I mean, if you want any of them to be read. That's a definite tl;dr, at least for me.

Although my head is hurting from days of reading linkspammage, so I might just be a bit grumpy right now.

[mechanicaljewel]

Do comics count? And do they count if only the writer or the artist is a POC?

[sanguinity]

Comics count, yes. And they count if only the writer is POC.

I'm talking to the other mods to see if they count if only the illustrator is POC.

[sanguinity]

White authors with POC ilustrators

[mechanicaljewel]

Hmm, you make a lot of good points. The work I was particularly thinking of was "Top 10: The Forty-Niners", written by Alan Moore with art by Gene Ha (who is Korean-American). I wanted to count it because I think Ha is one of the finest illustrators in comics today, in addition to the book being a really good story.

Perhaps in cases such as these, it can count as long as the review is primarily focused on the art?

[bulliciosa]

What's the policy on re-reads?

[sanguinity]

Re-reads are perfectly fine.