Roxanne Gay
"We looked at 742 books reviewed, across all genres. Of those 742, 655 were written by Caucasian authors (1 transgender writer, 437 men, and 217 women). Thirty-one were written by Africans or African Americans (21 men, 10 women), 9 were written by Hispanic authors (8 men, 1 woman), 33 by Asian, Asian-American or South Asian writers (19 men, 14 women), 8 by Middle Eastern writers (5 men, 3 women) and 6 were books written by writers whose racial background we were simply unable to identify."
I agree this pie chart doesn't make it look good or fair, but I wonder what it would look like with a similar chart of the ethnic makeup of NYC beside it. If the city they live in is 66% Caucasian and their reviews are 66% by Caucasian reviewers, that would seem to be about right to me.
Off-topic, are you going to do a post about the new book Cobra Killer? I'm reading it right now and enjoying.
Posted by: Adam Dunn | June 09, 2012 at 02:45 PM