All posts tagged "African American"

Nine black people were shot to death by a self-proclaimed racist in South Carolina because of the color of their skin, and the country is having a debate about whether or not the statehouse should continue flying the Confederate flag.

I've been complaining about the rise African-American fiction sections since I worked at a Borders back in 2005. As Carleen Brice points out, there are actually two problems with the sections: the first is that they tend to send a signal to non-black audiences that These Mysterious Books Are Not For You, the second is that they lump together a wide variety of books under the broad genre of "African American fiction", most of which have nothing to do with each other.