Alexandra Dane, "White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Role of Whiteness in Anglophone Publishing
Super: You present here the argument that Anglophone publishing sectors across a lot of countries operate according to the logic of white taste making, even in the midst of these efforts towards diversity. Could you speak about how book publishing is actively defining notions of authority and legitimacy through these types of practices? Super: Yeah, absolutely. This is just what I think, you know, diving into the actual roots of the problem. It's perpetuating these inequalities because of the fact that it's a business that is focused on circulating knowledge is.
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