January 14th, 2012
Dear White Folks,
Ursula K. Le Guin, a White woman, wrote “A Wizard of Earthsea”. A fantasy novel in which ALL OF THE MAJOR CHARACTERS WERE BLACK, RED AND BROWN. And none of them were tokens or fetishes. They were—*gasp*—REAL PEOPLE.
Guess what else? She published that bad boy in the fucking Sixties.
Y’all have NO EXCUSES for the mess y’all pull today.
(via telegantmess)
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Motherfucking LOVE Ursula K. Le Guin. also Verner Vinge and Arthur C. Clarke
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here is a shamefully short list of some more recent YA fantasy books that include characters of color as protagonists.
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And then there was her “Left Hand of Darkness” novel. the gender issues explored in it, so many years ahead of their...
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