Science fiction and race
Jul. 31st, 2007 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiToday's Boston Globe runs an article on the race gap in science fiction. There's not necessarily much new here (other than the obvious difference in venue between, say, a Wiscon panel and the front page of the Living Arts section of a major metro paper), and today's too busy a day for me to really go into the topic, but I wanted to bookmark it for myself, at least.
My biggest problem with the article is that it seems to have huge holes where it was cut for space (like the follow-up and examples that David Anthony Durham surely offered to his comment about the racism and sexism of epic fantasy); the online edition would be a great chance to expand the article to the length the subject deserves*. They also blow Nalo Hopkinson's gender once, but since they get it right elsewhere, I'm chalking that up to a typo.
*Okay, not really, as they probably don't have enough server space. But they could certainly expand it a little bit, at least.
My biggest problem with the article is that it seems to have huge holes where it was cut for space (like the follow-up and examples that David Anthony Durham surely offered to his comment about the racism and sexism of epic fantasy); the online edition would be a great chance to expand the article to the length the subject deserves*. They also blow Nalo Hopkinson's gender once, but since they get it right elsewhere, I'm chalking that up to a typo.
*Okay, not really, as they probably don't have enough server space. But they could certainly expand it a little bit, at least.