tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post1972705072733661387..comments2024-03-03T13:55:46.243-08:00Comments on Ambling Along the Aqueduct: Does Walmart have a Jim Crow policy for the books it sells?Timmi Duchamphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00673465487533328661noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post-54775170780783773882023-11-02T15:20:32.861-07:002023-11-02T15:20:32.861-07:00I can't find black authors in Batesville AR, n...I can't find black authors in Batesville AR, not even Terry McMillan Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post-426170180596425772010-09-05T00:29:31.920-07:002010-09-05T00:29:31.920-07:00I've seen plenty of chain bookstores with an A...I've seen plenty of chain bookstores with an African-American <i>fiction</i> section, one that often focused on schlocky-looking volumes of the <i>Thong on Fire</i> sort (a friend who worked at Waldenbooks in Cheektowaga was once told, "Don't put Toni Morrison in the African-American section: Those People don't understand her books"!); but confining anything with a black author or subject, including Obama, to a separate section is a new one to me.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15914730499199048197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post-38559190306674985302010-09-03T23:34:35.434-07:002010-09-03T23:34:35.434-07:00This doesn't surprise me, except for the fact ...This doesn't surprise me, except for the fact that it's being applied to biographies/autobiographies.<br /><br />It is pretty typical in bookstores for all the African-American authors to get lumped into the "Black Literature" section. If you want to find Alaya Dawn Johnson's books, don't look in SF/F.Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12489798977069390109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post-88981514888958768282010-09-03T17:04:11.080-07:002010-09-03T17:04:11.080-07:00Oh, yep, they do that for both black and Latin@ wr...Oh, yep, they do that for both black and Latin@ writers in various Wal-Marts I've been in around the country (why was I in Wal-Mart looking for books? Because I like to read trashy romances in Spanish, and some Wal-Marts stock them. In their own segregated section.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com