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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Honestly, I don't know most of the time, because I don't think about it. Yes, people can read a book without thinking about its author's race even once. Not in the US, perhaps, but certainly in many other countries.
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It’s not something that crosses my mind. I’ll look at the title and synopsis of the book to decide if it’s something I want to read. Something going digital has made easier because I don’t need to be aware of the last name of an author while browsing a shelf.
Of course even judging by the name of an author is already fraught with perils and will only continue to be so in and become even more so, pen names exist, and more and more people are marrying different ethnicities which of course results in more varied names, there’s also adoption to consider.