id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-25356 Roh, Charlotte 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). 2022-03-03 3 .pdf application/pdf 1818 77 55 In this and other in-depth text analysis that compares books by white authors, black authors, and POC authors in (first) literary reviews and (second) recognition through commercial and critical success, So puts to rest some of the enduring myths of book publishing—that authors are vetted for the quality of their work; that there are a lot of diverse books being published; that we have reached volume and suc- cess with African American literature. So starts with the “count” that 97 percent of books published by Random House in this time period are by white authors. cache/crl-25356.pdf txt/crl-25356.txt