A Few Statistics on the Extreme Whiteness of the Book Industry
‘We were shocked by the extent of the inequality once we analyzed the data’
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2 min readDec 16, 2020
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When Toni Morrison worked as an editor at Random House from 1976 to 1983, about 3% of the books published during that time were written by Black authors. After Morrison left to focus on her writing career, that number dropped…