Does Bookstore’s Black Section Harm Black Books?

July 12th, 2011 - By TheEditor

(AOL Black Voices) — “As an author and a former bookstore employee, anything that potentially makes a book harder to find could be a concern,” Danielle Evans, the author of the lauded Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, told BlackVoices. “I have on occasion walked out of a bookstore or bought something else after not finding a book that I was looking for in the lit section, and then blocks away realized I should have asked if it was in the af-am section, because it can be hard to remember which stores shelve what where, and which stores have African-American sections.”

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