I don't think it's about inventory patterns. There really are very few American YA novels with non-white protagonists, as a proportion of all the YA novels published.
You may recall during Yes Gay YA that a number of authors mentioned pressure from agents and editors to make their protagonists of color white, and one writer whose novel was edited without her consent to remove all mentions of her character's (non-white) race.
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Date: 2012-08-25 08:50 pm (UTC)I don't think it's about inventory patterns. There really are very few American YA novels with non-white protagonists, as a proportion of all the YA novels published.
You may recall during Yes Gay YA that a number of authors mentioned pressure from agents and editors to make their protagonists of color white, and one writer whose novel was edited without her consent to remove all mentions of her character's (non-white) race.