Some Interesting Links

[neo_prodigy]

A Note On Whitewashing, And Honest Storytelling

The Ongoing Problem of Race In Y.A.: Being a person of color myself and the author of a YA novel which features a black protagonist, I definitely related to most of the issues raised in this article

Comments

[a_g_doren]

Hmmm,Magic Under Glass looked interesting but I passed it by because it looked really white.May have to give it a gander.

The way race is dealt with in the media has convinced me to just do the best I can self publishing when I go back to writing original fiction. Thanks to technology you no longer have to play their game.

[neurotic_rat]

"White readers have to be eased into identifying with characters who aren’t white, so she waits to deliver the information that a character is of color until the reader is already hooked into the story."

For some odd reason, I love this writing tactic she (LeGuin) used in her works. I'm wishing there was an equivalent to it in comics/manga and other visually-related works which feature POCs as the main protagonists.