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Bloomsbury withdraws 'Magic Under Glass' cover after whitewashing

by theGrio | January 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM
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From Entertainment Weekly

Ready for the FAIL news of the day? Here it is: Publisher Bloomsbury has come under fire for whitewashing the cover of one of its titles — for the second time in a year.

The controversy began less than a year ago, when readers discovered that Justine Larbalestier’s Liar — a book about a biracial high school student — had a white girl pictured on its jacket. Now, the publisher is facing ire once again for its cover of Jaclyn Dolamore’s Magic Under Glass, a fantasy novel with an African-American protagonist, which features a white woman on its jacket. Oof. (Says Bloomsbury via its website “The jacket design has caused offense and we apologize for our mistake. Copies of the book with a new jacket design will be available shortly.”)

Read the rest of this story “here”:http://shelf-life.ew.com/2010/01/22/bloomsbury-whitewashing-magic-under-glass//.

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