Archive for Race/Ethnicity
Here's a simple guideline that I wish more people in our society would follow: Don't touch other people without their...
Back in 2009, Liz H pointed to an essay that I liked: “Oppression,” by Marilyn Frye, from Frye's 1983 book...
I've been following the California Attorney General vote-counting with fingers crossed. Here's a quick recap for those who don't know...
Some political and quasi-political items: Interesting discussion of tensions within the Tea Party as they settle in to become part...
There's a project called Con or Bust that provides financial aid to "fans of color who want to attend SFF...
Ellen Oh, a Korean-American writer, is one of many people who've blogged about the shameful whitewashing of the cast of...
A few more assorted notes about cover art on books, especially with regard to issues of portrayals of characters of...
A fun LJ meme: casting various traditionally white comic-book characters as actors of color. There's a good starting point at...
Ari at Reading in Color blogs about the latest YA fantasy novel with a whitewashed cover. Yep, it's yet another...
Thoughtful and interesting post from N. K. Jemisin on why RaceFail was good for science fiction/fantasy. Excerpt: The angry questions that...
A few things that seem kind of related to me: HP's face-tracking webcam apparently doesn't detect black faces as faces....
Smart and interesting discussion in the latest issue of Transformative Works and Cultures: "Pattern recognition: A dialogue on racism in...