We try to talk Booktube and get distracted by our general distrust of social media. Inspired by the HuffPost piece titled "Where Are All the Black Booktubers?," we decided to investigate the question ourselves.
What we found wasn't that surprising: Plain ol' racism is keeping many Black booktubers from thriving. Naya, of Naya Reads and Smiles (the largest channel lead by a black booktuber), also spoke on the issue in her own video. The disparity between White booktubers and Black booktubers is undeniable. “White BookTubers who garner at least 300,000 subscribers on their YouTube channels … and two out of three of them even have their own published novels. On the flip side, the most well-known African-American BookTuber to date is Naya Reads and Smiles, with only 58,000 subscribers, despite having been uploading videos for years.
In other news, we also discussed:
Episode 55: ’Everything’s Fine’
Episode 55: Surviving Thrillers as a Black Woman w/ Rachel Howzell Hall
Episode 54: Celebrating Pride with Kianna Alexander
Episode 53: ’Everybody Ain’t Your Friend’
BCL Chat: ’Kindred’ and Black SFF Panel Discussion
Episode 51: An Introduction to Octavia Butler & ’Kindred’
Episode 50: The Color Purple (Part 2)
Episode 49: The Color Purple (Part 1)
Episode 48: A Glimmer of Death
Episode 47: Butterfly
BCL Chat: The Horror
Episode 46: These Toxic Things
Episode 45: Loving My Wife and Her Sister Too ft. Ratchet Book Club
Episode 44: The Other Black Girl
Episode 43: While Justice Sleeps
BCL Chat: Back to Our Messy Roots
Episode 42: Such A Fun Age
BCL Chat: The Outrage Machine and Book Publishing
Episode 41: The Cartel
BCL Chat: Hindsight is 2020
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