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    Barnes & Noble ‘Blackface’ Black History Month Slammed

    Amari Summerlin, DIBy Amari Summerlin, DIFebruary 5, 2020Updated:February 10, 2020No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Major bookseller Barnes & Noble canceled a Black History Month initiative at its flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York City after public backlash.

    What We Know:

    • On Wednesday, the store planned to host an event to launch its new Diverse Editions project which would showcase classic books like, The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, Moby-Dick, Romeo and Juliet, and Peter Pan with new covers illustrating the main characters as people of color.
    • The store planned to feature the newly jacketed books in its window display all month.
    • The Diverse Editions release was put to a halt after being slammed on Twitter for Barnes & Noble’s “literary blackface”.
    • LL McKinney tweeted, “Another version of literary blackface..eye..”

    https://twitter.com/ElleOnWords/status/1224871848028098565?s=20

    • In a statement announcing the suspension Wednesday, the company ackowledged that merely slapping a new cover on the same old times was not the same as releasing books about or by writers of color.
    • Barnes & Noble said in a tweet, “We acknowledge the voices who have expressed concern, the covers are not a substitute for black voices or writers of color, whose work and voices deserve to be heard.”
    • “You have to look at the obstacles already facing writers from marginalized communities,” Fredrick Joseph, who is Black and the author of the upcoming book, The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person.
    • About 76% of publishing industry staff in the U.S was white and 5% Black in 2019. Just 6% of children’s and young adult books published in the U.S in 2018 were written by Black authors, according to data for the Cooperative Children’s Book Center.

    Barnes & Noble believed they could slap African Americans heads with African American covers on well known white tales. Better try next time!

    African-American Barnes & Noble BLACK HISTORY MONTH blackface Diverse Editions New york
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