Give a Black Writer's Book to a White Person

It's the exhortation of a blog White Readers Meet Black Writers encouraging people to give white people a book by a black writer.  It's a cheeky proposition, but I like it.  I did the opposite (or half the opposite) once I graduated from college.  As an English Lit. major, I had o.d.'ed on dead white men books (many of which I loved), but I went in search of white writers from the modern times (both men and women).  It was then that I fell in love with writers like May Sarton, Alice McDermott, Mary Oliver, Sharon Olds, William Faulkner (I know he was dead but I missed out on a lot of his work in college), and William Stafford.  Oh, there were many others.  It's really important to do this cross-cultural reading--so we can find ourselves in each other's stories.  If you're paying attention, you will.