I read Zora Neale Hurston's essay "What White Publishers Won't Print." In this essay she takes a look at the stereotypes white publishers place on minorities which they use as excuses for not publishing works about different ethnic groups that actually have substance. She argues that white people do not recognize that minorities have feelings like they do because they don't look like them. I feel like this argument is not all sound. It seems a little extreme to say that white people don't think that minorities feel a certain way. I know this essay was written over 50 years ago and that racism was a big deal then and still has its issues today, but I find it hard to believe that statement.

She says that any romance story involving a minority where there is no struggle with race does not appeal to white publishers. It seems that minorities had to fit into a specific mold just to find their place in books. If they didn't fit into the stereotypical role or caused racial tension in the book, then there was no place for them.

Reading this essay after having read Dr. Powers essay about how we are reading less and less and its impact on ethnic literature. It seems like we have worked so hard to get to a point where ethnic minorities are integral part of the literary community, but now since we aren't reading as much ethnic literature is not receiving the exposure it deserves.