Cultural appropriation and the whiteness of book publishing

In Which a White Guy Talks about Cultural Appropriation

I'm well aware that I write this from what seems like the least defensible perspective: that of a white middle-aged male American published ...

In the world of book publishing, who has the right to tell what stories ...

It should make us all uncomfortable that we exist in a world where white authors write about experiences that are not their own, whilst the ...

Read Between the Racism: The Serious Lack of Diversity in Book ...

Mejias also sees the situation being such that writers of color aren't allowed to fail the same way white writers are allowed to. If one book by ...

I Needed to Know if My Favorite Books Were Products of Cultural ...

So, are The Pearl (1947), The Good Earth (1931), and A Passage to India (1924) works of cultural appropriation? In an article published by ...

What Are White Writers For? | The New Republic

The publishing industry is overwhelmingly white—according to the latest survey, out this week from Publisher's Weekly, 88 percent white. No one ...

Should Cultural Appropriation Get Approbation? | Dave Astor on ...

Our group didn't think too much of the book and I was confused by the messages of racism. Hard to be white? Gimme a break. Then one of the ...

Writing Other Cultures: Promoting Diversity or Cultural Appropriation?

By this definition, white authors with characters of color, straight authors with LGBTQ characters, and Christian authors with characters from ...

Why Publishing Is So White - Publishers Weekly

Though Low's survey goes well beyond race—it breaks down the workforce in a variety of ways, including by gender, sexual orientation, and ...

Is writing a fantasy world based on non-western histories ... - Reddit

Cultural appropriation is taking another culture and using it in a disrespectful or stereotypical way. Tonto or Apache Chief could be called ...

Is Fear of Appropriation Fomenting a Culture of Censorship?

... literary agencies, that I would be unable to get my book published: “Your whiteness ... cultural appropriation' these days. These are brutal ...

J.K. Rowling's Cultural Appropriation Should Be A Lesson To White ...

I'm just glad I learned this lesson from her before actually getting my book published. Now time to go back and make some changes. (Not to ...

Cultural Appropriation: It is not your story to tell and profit from.

It is for our communities to use. For me is the most hurtful part of this book and clearly shows the cultural appropriation of this white settler educator. This ...

Cultural Appropriation - Author Susan Cushman

Writers on each side of the color line have more than just the right to cross the divide and report back. It is their duty. Imaginative life ...

Authors fear accusations of cultural appropriation, forum hears

Cries of cultural appropriation could be dissuading authors from publishing books that reflect black, Asian, ethnic minority (BAME) ...

Cultural Appropriation In Fiction: Here Are Some Tips To Consider ...

Cultural appropriation is the act of adopting certain aspects of a culture in a manner that disrespects the cultural significance and inaccurately represents a ...

Episode 101: Cultural Appropriation and the Scarcity Myth

... published is now scarce for white authors. ... Linda Sue park talks about her cultural appropriation experience writing the book, '“The Long Walk ...

Struggling in Workshop with the Question of Cultural Appropriation

And the more you and I think about identity, the more we might discover that cultural appropriation is less a question of “staying in one's lane ...

The Artist or the Emperor? Cultural Appropriation and Children's ...

According to the Center's 2018 study, half of the children's books published in that year centered white characters. Ten percent featured ...

Appropriation and fiction - Alli Marshall

This is what I've been thinking about lately: appropriation. It's become a bad word (along with privilege). Racial appropriation, cultural ...

Is it cultural appropriation when I am an Asian writing a book ... - Quora

Cultural appropriation is a complex issue that typically refers to borrowing elements from a marginalized culture without understanding or ...