![]() ![]() "The struggle over the direction of our country," he wrote, "is also a fight over whose words will win and whose images will ignite the collective imagination." Immigrants needed to tell their story - and tell it better. Soon after the 2016 election, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen published a piece in the New York Times arguing that the outcome was partly the failure of writers. The failure to cultivate and nurture the voices of American writers of minority and immigrant backgrounds was the failure to tell a full national story, writer Junot Diaz explained in a New Yorker essay. ![]() A viral social media movement led by writers of color called #WeNeedDiverseBooks began pushing the industry to acknowledge and address its resounding whiteness. Two years before the election of President Trump and the bitter politics of border walls, Muslim bans and s-hole countries, the American publishing industry was facing an identity crisis. ![]()
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