Cole Jack’s Reviews > Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction > Status Update

Lavender's analysis is continually echoing comments from disabled communities and disability studies without recognizing he is doing so. His analysis is so focused in critical race studies and science fiction studies that he isn't applying other scholarship with tools that could provide more depth to his analysis.

"While there is no specific textual detail, like a quotation, that bolsters the idea that DGD is a racial metaphor, bits of tangential evidence indicate that we can read the story this way, even if these bits are inconclusive and speak to other kinds of oppression..." Like disability. A reading bolstered by numerous quotations.

I don't understand his argument that "Hell, they should pass a law to sterilize the lot of us" is "unmistakably racial." It could easily read as disability focused too and Lavender seems to ignore this in his introduction and his notes on the piece. I admit, I could be biased because I wrote an essay examining disability in this story, but it doesn't seem possible to separate race and disability in "The Evening."

No, talking about techno-orientalism in the _representation_ of Asian characters isn't the same as talking about Asian American SF. Notice, you talk about Indigenous, black, and Latino authors and their representations of race while your _1_ discussion of Asian identity is a piece by a white author.