African-Americans in Fantasy

Here’s an interesting blog post I found on the Informed Reader Blog at Wall Street Journal Online about African-Americans creating a space in the white dominated world science fiction and fantasy.

It also includes a link to an excerpt from “The Comet” by W.E.B Dubois.

http://blogs.wsj.com/informedreader/2007/07/31/697/

The only commentary that I have is that what’s being written represents the writers. The more African American writers there are, the larger our presence will be. But the other problem is that there doesn’t seem to be an interest in the African-American community in science-fiction and fantasy. Whether that is a result of there not being many writers, I don’t really know. I would tend to think that is the case.

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This post was written by Bedlam on December 5, 2007

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Sweet Christmas

Did you notice the comment in the blog

“Lord of the Rings was most certainly not monoracial. While the actors may have been the same skin color, the actual characters were incredibly multiracial. There were elves, humans, hobbits, wizards, etc. When will we get away from this preoccupation with skin color?”

When you quit defending the status quo because you like it that way.
Sweet Christmas

Did you notice the comment in the blog

“Lord of the Rings was most certainly not monoracial. While the actors may have been the same skin color, the actual characters were incredibly multiracial. There were elves, humans, hobbits, wizards, etc. When will we get away from this preoccupation with skin color?”

When you quit defending the status quo because you like it that way.