{"id":12278,"date":"2009-07-26T02:02:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T09:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/07\/26\/12278.html"},"modified":"2009-07-26T02:02:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T09:02:12","slug":"justine-l-on-protagonists-of-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/07\/26\/justine-l-on-protagonists-of-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Justine L on protagonists of color and book covers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Justine Larbalestier recently posted two excellent blog entries on topics related to protagonists of color:<\/p>\n<p>First: \"<a href=\"http:\/\/justinelarbalestier.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/22\/why-my-protags-arent-white\/\">Why My Protags Aren't White<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n<p>And second: \"<a href=\"http:\/\/justinelarbalestier.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/23\/aint-that-a-shame\/\">Ain't That a Shame<\/a>,\" talking about the fact that the US cover of her latest book shows a white girl's face, even though the protagonist is black.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of book covers whitewashing characters of color has been around for a long time. And it's been getting a little better in recent years&mdash;I've seen several excellent covers in the past few years that show protagonists of color.<\/p>\n<p>But we've still got a long way to go.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Justine, for both of those posts.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justine Larbalestier recently posted two excellent blog entries on topics related to protagonists of color: First: &#8220;Why My Protags Aren&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-ethnicity","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}