Richard Jean So. Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2020. 240p. Paper, $20.00 (ISBN 978-0231197731).

Abstract

In the past few years, we’ve seen more conversation around the lack of diversity in publishing. Even before the civil rights protests of 2020, we had regular news and opinion articles from industry publication Publishers Weekly, the Lee and Low Diversity Baseline survey, the State of Racial Diversity in Romance Publishing Report, diversity statistics from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), and the VIDA Count, among other smaller-scale efforts to highlight the problem.