This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.
I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white woman wrote it. Nobody said that to me, they just said, 'The Help - Oh my god, you've got to read it.' Everyone failed to mention it was a white woman, I think, because nobody really wants to talk about race.
It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'
It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
Books are humanity in print.
Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
There are a lot of wonderful books out there that aren't marketed properly, and readers who might love them never even know they exist.
The original version of 'The White Mountains' was probably just about worth publishing.
I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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