Status Updates From Race and Popular Fantasy Li...

Kind of iffy on some points ngl, for example the claim that Fantasy as a popular fiction genre is firmly rooted in and shaped by the US and UK. This might be the case for Western fantasy, but our Fantasy just manifests differently, Instead of Tolkien, East Asia, for example, had the Chinese classic "Journey to The West" since the 16th century and there are many contemporary works not influenced by Western Fantasy

This very good piece of literary criticism is gonna make my Goodreads TBR unforgivably long

Finally, I am done with this shit. It has been a while since I read such a racist book.

I take note that earlier she considered to have red hair be connected to supernatural powers as essentialism and racialization, but now having magic be linked to being born with dreadlocks is fine... typical hypocrisy.

Fan communities... screw this. The author has lied way too often. And I am firmly convinced that she is a white supremacist now as she mentioned not a single non-European, heck, barely any non-Anglo influence on popular culture. Not even the Last Airbender cartoon was cited as a positive example.

Presence of people of color is necessary to break Fantasy´s habit of Whiteness? Didn´t know that all the fantasy fiction produced in Asia and Africa was considered white. Then again, why should an anglocentrist like her care about those continents...