6. The obverse side of cultural appropriation is that if nobody except people of a particular minority (class, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc.) write about that minority, then representations of that minority will never get out of the ghetto of being "minority writing." Which reinscribes the problem very neatly on itself.
You have no idea how important that is. Reading Andre Norton's LAVENDER GREEN MAGIC when I was a kid was influential to me because she opted to have African-Americans a protagnostics. Norton started a dream for me.
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Date: 2006-06-03 11:22 pm (UTC)You have no idea how important that is. Reading Andre Norton's LAVENDER GREEN MAGIC when I was a kid was influential to me because she opted to have African-Americans a protagnostics. Norton started a dream for me.