Reflecting on and Shattering My White Lens: A Critical Autoethnography on My Experience as a White Editor Working with Authors of Color

<p>This critical autoethnography aims to reveal how the cultural biases of a white majority industry impact the stories they select for acquisition and how they are edited. As an editor, I came to this topic from my personal desire to see if my own whiteness affects the way I view writers of color, their stories, and the audience that the companies market to. Thus, the purpose of this project is to explore the current conversations on the topic of diversity within the publishing industry and whether the conversation is making a connection between the lack of diversity in the workforce and the lack of diversity within the titles published. In addition to this exploration, I aim reflect on my own bias and editing process through a critical autoethnography of three major editorial projects. Thus, I hope this literature review and my reflection with encourage my fellow white editors to think about their own editorial processes.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in Professional Writing (MAPW)

Level thesis:degree_level

Capstone

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2018

Author dc:creator

• Medlin, Kelsey

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Regina Bradley
• Dr. Lara Smith-Sitton

• publishing
• editing
• diversity
• race
• equity
• editors
• Creative Writing
• Fiction
• Nonfiction
• Technical and Professional Writing

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/mapw_etd/43

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu:mapw_etd-1043