WHAT SHOULD WE CALL IT?

Placement: Asian American, Black & African American, Hispanic American, Native American, or General.

A screenshot sent to us by our friends at Serif Press, who are putting a book of poetry up for sale through Amazon. These are the “placements” you can choose in the “Poetry—United States” category.

It’s an interesting phenomenon in the world of literature, and it seems to Dr. Boli that there ought to be a word for it. What do you call it when the dominant group is treated as the norm, but the non-dominant groups are assigned to their own little ghettos? Ethnicgroupism? Nationaloriginism? There ought to be some short and simple term for it, don’t you think?