Pam Noles, "Shame"

[truepenny]

Read this.

Comments

[ethereal-lad.livejournal.com]

Brilliant article. It's why I support the Carl Brandon society (fans of color).

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link.

[michael-b-lee.livejournal.com]

Damn. That's a fantastic article. Thanks for the link.

[marith.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I'm reminded of Anansi Boys now, and sheepish all over again that I mostly failed to notice the ethnicity of the characters most of the way through.

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

Brilliant article.

Though it does sort of bring up that old question: if one includes people of a variety of colors in their work, is that tokenism? I do have characters of a variety of colors, and they just walked onscreen like that; but the problem is sometimes I don't mention their color, because describing characters in terms of color isn't always part of the natural flow of the narrative. I've used the term "dark-complected" because "black" sounds anachronistic amongst the horses and swords. (Not to mention that some of my nonhuman people are black in the charcoal-colored sense, and it's an important distinction from the shades of pink and brown my humans are.)

It seems to me that if I talk too much about it, it's tokenism. But if I don't talk enough about it, it's easy to get the impression that everyone is white. :-/

[heresluck]

Thanks for the link.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

You saw her follow-up, right? About some of the responses that "Shame" provoked. (http://andweshallmarch.typepad.com/and_we_shall_march/2006/01/the_shame_of_ea.html)

[storyjunkie.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

Hon, did you know Locus has named MELUSINE one of the best books of 2005?

http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Features/Cheney_BestOf2005.html

Brava!