Haaa! I feel stupid, but I’m gonna be honest in that I was exclusively looking at genre fiction.
That’s still kinda my shock though, like I’m not discounting Maya Angelou or Frederick Douglas as brilliant writers, but they’re pigeonholed in to borderline race-based categories. I literally couldn’t find one fantasy or sci-fi book that I could attribute to a black author.
No, and given that they were hacks promoted purely because of their skin color, i'm gonna assume that the others you mentioned are as well.
Haaa! I feel stupid, but I’m gonna be honest in that I was exclusively looking at genre fiction.
That’s still kinda my shock though, like I’m not discounting Maya Angelou or Frederick Douglas as brilliant writers, but they’re pigeonholed in to borderline race-based categories. I literally couldn’t find one fantasy or sci-fi book that I could attribute to a black author.