Library in the Latin America Memorial, in São Paulo, practically empties its shelves, exposing a lack of Black literary representation

Library in the Latin America Memorial, in São Paulo, practically empties its shelves, exposing a lack of Black literary representation

São Paulo, March 2025 – The Library of the Latin America Memorial, in São Paulo, opened its doors with almost no books to be seen. The initiative by Amazon.com.br temporarily emptied the library’s bookshelves, leaving only those written by Black authors. The act was designed to provide a powerful visual demonstration of the inequality that persists in literary representation.The Latin American Memorial Library, which has a collection of 50,000 t…