{"id":2774,"date":"2012-06-13T16:51:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T21:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:51","slug":"where-things-stand-ny-times-book-review-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/13\/where-things-stand-ny-times-book-review-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Things Stand (NY Times Book Review, Race, Gender)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2012\/06\/where-things-stand\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RaceData-1024x825.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We looked at 742 books reviewed, across all genres. Of those 742, 655 were written by Caucasian authors (1 transgender writer, 437 men, and 217 women). Thirty-one were written by Africans or African Americans (21 men, 10 women), 9 were written by Hispanic authors (8 men, 1 woman), 33 by Asian, Asian-American or South Asian writers (19 men, 14 women), 8 by Middle Eastern writers (5 men, 3 women) and 6 were books written by writers whose racial background we were simply unable to identify.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>-Roxane Gay<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2012\/06\/where-things-stand\/\">Where Things Stand &#8211; The Rumpus.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugh.  Roxane Gay, of The Rumpus.net, found that 90% of books reviewed in the New York Times are by white authors.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[186,45,636,635,634,279,274],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-bookreview","tag-books","tag-gender","tag-men","tag-newyorktimes","tag-nytimes","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10037,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/10037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}