IBARW 3: 50 books by POC

[oyceter]

This is a post for Intl. Blog Against Racism Week.

My terms, definitions, and disclaimers.

50books_poc is a community for people trying to read 50 books by POC in a year, be it from IBARW to IBARW or a calendar year. I had half-heartedly committed to it when it was announced during IBARW last year, but upon doing my 2007 book write up, clearly I needed to

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[taelle]

I wanted to thank you because it was through your LJ I found Marjorie Liu. The choice of books in English here is limited, but her books I managed to find were a lot of fun.

(and made most of my POC-reading this year - I went and counted after this entry of yours. Besides Liu, only one Japanese novel)

[oyceter]

Yay, more people reading Liu!

[minnow1212]

Bookmarking the list. Awesome.

[oyceter]

Yeeeaaaaah.... as I said, it's not like I need an incentive to read more manga! ;)

[rilina]

Awesome list!

(Though, an aside: don't forget that books on library shelves depend on other people too: the selector/purchaser for that category, the library vendors, etc. The books that get purchased and displayed, the specific subcollections which get the most money--these are shaped by institutional racism as well. I was just talking to a colleague about job hunting in libraries, and he (a POC) told me about visiting a library where he was warned during the interview that the non-English language collection wasn't small because they didn't really want "those people" in the building.)

[oyceter]

Good point re: the dependencies on library purchasers and etc! I have been too spoiled by my own, and ack to the story of that interview!

[sanguinity]

Oo!

Early on, I was finding books by browsing randomly through shelves, and yeah, had similar experiences to you. Really difficult to know who I was passing over.

This year I may not count manga. I haven't decided yet.

*happily going off to explore all the YA recs*