January 1, 2008 - April 30, 2008
Melissa at Book Nut is hosting an interesting, multi-cultural/ethnic challenge called Expanding Horizons.
She says:
The purpose of this challenge is to read works by authors of ethnicities other than your own. I have decided to omit works by Caucasian authors (since they're the biggest group in the English-language book world; I want to explore books by authors in less-well-represented ethnicities). I have debated about whether or not to focus entirely on authors or to include main character's ethnicity, too, and I've decided that for this challenge I want the focus to be on the nationality of the author, rather than the characters. The books can be fiction or nonfiction; adult or YA; and can cross over to as many other challenges as you want.
Participants may read either 4 books from one category; or 6 books...one from each category. Categories are as follows:
- African/African-American.
- Asian/Asian-American (This is not just East Asian -- Chinese, Korean and Japanese -- but also Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, and the Central Asian -Stans.)
- Hispanic/Latin American
- Indian/Indian-American (Again, books by Indian authors; not books by white authors set in India.)
- Middle Eastern (Iran, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Turkey...)
- Native Peoples (Can include Native American, Inuit, Polynesian --Maori, Samoan, etc -- Siberian natives and Australian Aborigines.)
