How Tracy Sherrod came to lead America’s oldest Black publishing imprint.
, Rumaan Alam spoke with Tracy Sherrod, the editorial director of Amistad, the oldest U.S. publisher dedicated to multicultural voices, about her work there. Sherrod shared how she got into publishing, how she came to work at Amistad, who reads books by and about Black people, and the economics of the publishing industry. This partial transcript of their conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
I ended up at Henry Holt & Co., which was a wonderful experience, but I left Henry Holt when I went to my publisher, and I asked her to read Sister Souljah’s, which was on submission. She told me no, she wouldn’t read it, because someone in the house had said that Sister Souljah was racist. I said, “In the past 10 years, the only people who have been called racist are people of color. I’m really concerned about that, and I’m going to resign today.” And so I did.
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