Based off the series going on
http://bitchmagazine.org/blogs/girls-... [which they deleted now]
Also to raise awareness about the other people of color books out there, not restricted to ya or middle grade
Indies/self-pub welcome
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message 1: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Umm, I don't mean to sink your boat, but I think Cinder's white. Yes, the book's set in China, but she's not Chinese...


message 2: by Sara (new)

Sara Weather Coolcurry wrote: "Umm, I don't mean to sink your boat, but I think Cinder's white. Yes, the book's set in China, but she's not Chinese..."

I looked on Marissa Meyers site, she said that Cinder is a mix of races so basically ambiguous. That kind of sucks actually because ambiguous usually means the author wants to strattle the fence.


message 3: by Sarah (new)

Sarah I've noticed that a lot of the "diverse" characters on lists such as these tend to be either ambiguous or mixed race (at least partially white). Worse, sometimes I think authors just create mixed race characters to make them "special," and it never impacts the character or plot - Kaye in Tithe would be a example of this.


message 4: by Sara (new)

Sara Weather They usually use the excuse that in the future we all mix together so we are post-racial. I kind of have a problem with this idea that the only way to get over our differences is for us to all mix together. That is saying that we will only accept each other only when we are the same. I think it would have more impact for characters who are different races in the future to have gotten past race issues. On one hand I don't want the addition of a different race character to derail the entire plot but I still want to not fill like they were added for brownie points.


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Sara Weather I don't know if all these books are diverse books.


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Devon Munn I've added some books if anyone here is curious


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Artie Carden I'm creating a TBR on my blog for diverse dystopian sci-fi if that interests anyone here :) artiecarden.com


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