Need a Recommendation? Got a Recommendation?

[sanguinity]

Hm. It seems the last time I did a delicious + recs extravaganza was, er, May, which must mean that you have a very lazy mod. Or something.

Interesting and/or useful things that we have been collecting at delicious:

• Booklists
  • People of Color in SF Wiki -- hosted by the Carl Brandon Society
    
  • sparkymonster @ deadbrowalking: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Authors of African Descent
    
  • Books Recommended by Friends of CoffeeandInk, @ LibraryThing, @ GoodReads -- compilation and index of the recs made in this 500-comment RaceFail post
    
  • Books for our Times -- recommended books by African-American authors that "shed light on our times", offered as a corrective to a white-centric list published by Newsweek
    
  • American Book Awards - Before Columbus Foundation -- (description of the award and foundation). Many authors are POC; despite the connotations of the name, award is multicultural-focused instead of Native-focused.
    
  • (I know a BUNCH of booklists got posted during IBARW; I haven't yet had a chance to go through and compile them yet. It'll happen. If you want to help, do the "for:50books_poc" thing listed below, preferably including a short descrip of what we'd find at that link. Otherwise, I'll get to it when I can.)
  
  
  
• Blogs
  • Glyphs - The Language of the Black Comics Community Blog by Rich Watson, focusing on comics by or about people of color.
    
  • American Indians in Children's Literature -- (had I seriously never collected this before? seriously?) reviews and discussions of kid's books about American Indians, written by Deb Reese of the Nambe Pueblo. Most reviews are of white-authored books that get it wrong, but some of the posts are about Native-authored books.
    
  • Novel Spaces -- Group blog of 11 authors, mostly authors of color, in diverse genres: romance, SFF, horror, erotica, and mainstream.
    
  • BronzeWord Latino Authors -- Latest Latin@ books, author resources, showcase for young authors.
    
  • White Readers Meet Black Authors now has an LJ-feed, whitereadsblack
  
  
  
• POC-centric publishers, booksellers, and advocacy orgs:
  
  
  • Zubaan Books -- Indian feminist independent publishing house. "Some of the distinct lists that are being built in Zubaan are: Gender and Reproductive Health/Sexuality, Gender and Conflict, Gender and Architecture, Gender and Law, Gender and History/National Movement, Gender and Economics, The North East of India (including essays and fiction), Fiction in translation (mostly novels), Readers on the Women's Movement/Feminism, Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs"
    
    
  • Black Science Fiction Store -- books, comics, ebooks, audiobooks
    
  • African American Electronic Literary Network -- promotes African-American e-book authors, and educates urban communities on ebooks
    
  • Black Author Showcase - Agents of Literary Change -- social networking site with blog, bookstore, author resources.
    
    
  • Black Ink Press -- Community-based Indigenous writing, illustrating and publishing project based in North Queensland, with emphasis on children's books
    
  • Jujurrpa Books Publishes the work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and illustrators. Poetry, oral histories, children's biography, more.
    
  • AIATSIS Aboriginal Studies Press -- Publisher of Indigenous Studies, part of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Not all authors are indigenous.
    
  • Keeaira Press Publications Australia -- emphasis on photographs and art; not all authors are inidigenous.
    
  • Black Words -- newsletter, etexts, publishers, and other resources. Some resources only available to subscribers.
    
  
  
  
• Individual authors
  • Caren Gussoff -- CC-released short stories by Romani spec-fic author Caren Gussoff.
    
  • K Chronickles and (Th)ink -- website and blog of comic artist Keith Knight.
    
  • Podcast interview with Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    

If you have a link to add, either drop it in the comments here or:

• Add 50books_poc to your del.icio.us network.
• Save the link to your account with the tag "for:50books_poc".

And... on to the recs! If you're looking books in a particular genre or on a particular topic, or simply want to say, "Hey, I liked THIS book, what else would you recommend?" leave a comment. With luck, someone might have just the rec for you.

Comments

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

a rec for the booksellers portion of your list - Louise Erdrich's bookshop in Minneapolis: Birchbark Books (http://birchbarkbooks.com/). Great resources for Native culture, literature, arts, and history, and a wonderful children's section, plus part of the profits from the store go to supporting other Native artists.

[sanguinity]

Her bookshop is already listed, thanks! And I caught it in the March roundup, too. :-)

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

Oh! I'm sorry! My bad :">

[sanguinity]

No worries. :-) There's a lot more listed in that account that what shows up in any particular round-up; go have a poke around if you haven't yet.