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Staff's Choice: Who Decides What History Gets on the Shelf?

George Sully wrote the first memoir by a Black male fashion designer in Canadian history. When he asked how it gets onto a bookstore shelf, the answer was always the same: staff's pick, staff's choice. Nobody could explain the process. That is the point. Who decides what history gets seen, and what happens when the people deciding do not look like you?

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