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Tagging PoC authorship on LibraryThing


Inspired by [info]deepad 's very helpful post for white people about how to be an ally, I went through my collection of books on librarything and tagged everything with a PoC author, as a starting point for reading more books by people of color.

The resulting list is embarrassingly small, includes a bunch of mangas, and includes only one African-American author.  Most of these books haven't bubbled to the top of my reading list yet, either, so they're tagged unread--including one I really need to read ASAP, Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White. Still, if you're looking to increase the diversity of your reading list, you might find something there that interests you. 

It's an eye-opening exercise and I'd encourage other librarythingers to try it, not so much for self-education as to make it easier for everyone to discover and support PoC authors.  Here's another thinger's "PoC author" tag list, and here are all books tagged "PoC." 

[xposted from my lj]





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The Rest of 2008

Poll #1325486 The Rest of 2008
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 22

Have you read these books, either in full or in part, in 2008?

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Engine City (The Engines of Light, Book 3) by Ken MacLeod
3(8.6%)
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination by Katharine Harmon
1(2.9%)
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
7(20.0%)
Picoverse by Robert A. Metzger
0(0.0%)
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
11(31.4%)
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
2(5.7%)
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins
0(0.0%)
A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
1(2.9%)
Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski
1(2.9%)
The War Against the Rull by A. E. van Vogt
3(8.6%)
The Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard
6(17.1%)
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Poll #1325389 Belated, Bad Historical Data 2008 Book Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 24

Have you read these books, either in full or in part, in 2008?

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Evil Genes: Why Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend by Barbara Oakley
0(0.0%)
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-Day Iraq by Fernando Baez
0(0.0%)
Arcanum 17 by Andre Breton
0(0.0%)
The Stone Canal: A Novel (Fall Revolution) by Ken MacLeod
4(10.8%)
Learning the World: a Scientific Romance by Ken MacLeod
5(13.5%)
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
7(18.9%)
Breakpoint by Richard A. Clark
0(0.0%)
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different by Gordon S. Wood
0(0.0%)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
9(24.3%)
Roller Derby: The History and All-Girl Revival of the Greatest Sport on Wheels by Catherine Mabe
1(2.7%)
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War by
0(0.0%)
Y: The Last Man Vol. 9: Motherland by Michael J. Vaughn
5(13.5%)
The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists by Khaled M. Abou El Fadl
0(0.0%)
The Exterminators Vol. 1: Bug Brothers by Simon Oliver
0(0.0%)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
6(16.2%)
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Squirl -- a LibraryThing for all your other stuff

Just posted a comment to dale_in_queen's recent post, then realized that this might be of interest to the whole group:

I help to run a new cataloging site called Squirl which is like LibraryThing, but for all of your other stuff. You can use Squirl to catalog your books, but you can also use it for music, movies, video games, or anything else you might collect. You can import things from Amazon or upload your own pictures for things that you can't find on Amazon (your old LPs, coins, action figures...). For example, here's my collection of my favorite CDs.

Like LibraryThing, Squirl is free for up to 200 items and only $10/year for up to 5000 items.

Hope you check it out! And feel free to let me know what you think.