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I don't normally take race into account when buying books either. But I also never understood why romances by black authors were not shelved in the romance section but in the African American section along with non-fiction. That makes zero sense to me.
I read a number of Beverly Jenkins historicals over the years before I gave up on historicals. I remember shopping at B Dalton and Waldenbooks back in the day and getting questioned by some clerks over and above the usual snobbery against romance.
I wish everyone was as open minded as readers here, but sadly that's not the case. A lot of readers say they just can't "connect" with characters who are POC which also makes zero sense to me as people are people. And reading about how some authors at RWA would get up and leave if a black author sat at their table breaks my heart. I think talking about it is the only way to move forward.
I'm not on Twitter so I didn't know about the wrong names. They'd fixed the names before I posted the revised list.
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