50books_poc | Need a Recommendation? Got a Recommendation?

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

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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.