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[theweaselking]

"Shame", by Pam Noles

An essay on race "relations"[1] in fantasy and science fiction, such as they are.

And no, she's not talking elves and orcs and aliens. She's talking about how there are no non-white humans.

Comments

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

you mean "there are no non-white, non-humans".

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No. There are plenty of green non-humans, and black non-humans, and brown non-humans, and even fiery glowing non-humans.

There are just no non-white *humans*.

[graethorne.livejournal.com]

...Master Windu got jacked. Jar-Jar was a bad joke. "Boomer" on the original BattleStar Galactica may've been token, but I note he was the only one who hit what he shot at with his blaster.

This's one of the reasons I liked Babylon Five and Firefly; they weren't all WASPy lookin'.

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

ah. I see. thanks.