Encouraging ‘multicultural representation and societal equity,’ nonprofit Gold House releases its latest book recommendation list amid anti-Asian violence in many parts of the world.
Entering Tiananmen Square in Beijing, December 2017. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Mostofa Siraj Mohiuddin
Authors on the List Include Vuong, Zauner, Bulosan
Regular readers of
Publishing Perspectives may remember our writeup in October of the inaugural Gold House Book Club program designed to “champion authentic Asian representation through media to reshape public opinion.”
Today (June 4), on the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, we have news of the second list of titles issued by the program.
The company behind the program, Gold House, is a nonprofit collective “dedicated to unifying the world’s largest populace, Asians and Pacific Islanders, to enable more authentic multicultural representation and societal equity.” It’s interesting that during a time of so