lack of sources

The lack of references when you write about Hispanic folklore, white heroes to the rescue, and assholes reviewing books they don't understand.

The most complicated part when you write about the folklore of your land, your people, and your culture, which is not part of the United States of America, is writing with that voice in your head that constantly repeats to you "they are going to judge your work, they are going to read the halfway through the book and they're going to give you a low review to make sure no one else reads the book", especially since you don't have any references to back up what you say, and today's book-buying witches are terribly more focused on getting the references than you are not quoting - to run out and buy the next book without even putting into practice anything they have just read - because clearly before you (as a Hispanic author) very few authors have talked about the subject or simply ignored it cause is "not commercial"

People doing reviews like "in this chapter, the author says that he saw his mother do this, and his grandmother was there, but where are the sources of this?".

That is why publishing houses prefer to hire white authors and give them false names and fake identities to sell them as authors of color because they can make up all the sources they want and no one is as critical of white authors appropriating minority cultures as they are of non-white authors.

They read a Mexican author on a Mexican topic and do a review like "the author does not have enough sources", while the author is someone authentic from that people, from that culture, they are trying to bring representation to their culture, suddenly the same stupid people read a white man posing as a woman of color to write about Mexican folklore and they respond "this is the absolute best book on the subject I have read all my life".

Suddenly even Angelie Belard, Alysha Brown, Allycia Rye, Bridget Bishop, and everyone in Hentopan Publishing, know more about black culture being themselves white people from New Jersey than the people of color from who they have been stealing material for the past two decades.