{"id":12711,"date":"2010-01-18T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T21:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/01\/18\/12711.html"},"modified":"2010-01-18T13:01:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T21:01:14","slug":"nkj-on-positive-aspects-of-rac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/01\/18\/nkj-on-positive-aspects-of-rac\/","title":{"rendered":"NKJ on positive aspects of RaceFail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thoughtful and interesting post from N.&nbsp;K. Jemisin on <a href=\"http:\/\/nkjemisin.com\/2010\/01\/why-i-think-racefail-was-the-bestest-thing-evar-for-sff\/\">why RaceFail was good for science fiction\/fantasy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The angry questions that it raised didn't emerge from a vacuum; they've been here all along, and had in many cases been expressed already. W. E. B. DuBois was one of the first black SFF writers, and his stories [...] asked these questions then. I've seen essays from Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Joanna Russ, and many others which directly addressed all of it, often in calm, reasoned language[....] If reasoned conversation was all it took to trigger change, the transformations of RaceFail would've happened a long time ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a few quibbles with a few details of her post (I always have quibbles!), but I find most of it pretty compelling, especially the personal parts that start with \"I feel more comfortable <em>being myself<\/em> now than ever before, after more than 20 years as a fan and aspiring writer in this field.\" And I hope that's beginning to be true for other people of color in the sf world too.<\/p>\n<p>She also links to a piece about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/1929248\/how_martin_luther_king_kept_lt_uhura.html?cat=37\">Martin Luther King encouraging Nichelle Nichols to stay on as Uhura<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughtful and interesting post from N.&nbsp;K. Jemisin on why RaceFail was good for science fiction\/fantasy. Excerpt: The angry questions that&#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-12711","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\/12711","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=12711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}