The question of how well the books sell to black kids I don't know, but as for asian kids, so well that many Japanese kids have read the books before they are actually written. Big piracy thing with the Potter books, and many asian children wrote to complain about confusions, like Harry being involved with Hermione, and wizards from Lord of the Rings wandering in. They thought the author was forgetting things.

One advantage other races seem to have over whites is that they seem to be able to respond imaginatively to things that aren't dressed up as them. Except for The Titanic, they really hate that one, it's just too white. Isn't it embarrassing how we have to watch Chinese movies about the white guy, Indian movies about the white guy, all these dumb fantasies of the white guy becoming everyone else. In other words, doesn't the Last Samurai really utterly suck in so many suckational ways? Maybe the need to represent white guys where they don't need to be is more the real problem than trying to put everyone else in proper statistical proportions. Can't we care?