I can just about accept a quasi-European world with no black people in it (Fantasy worlds don't have immigration after all)
But they have MAGIC which can often be used to make travel easier, and they usually have trade if the author has thought about economics whatsoever. Why is it easier to imagine orcs and veelas than non-White people?
Plus, the author forgot another reason for the general "fantasy characters are White" assumption -- when Rowling revealed that a minor character was Black there was a massive outcry.
Feh. As you can guess (since I'm a Black woman who spent most of my first two decades reading fantasy until I gave up on it for all its quasi-Europeanness) I have opinions on this subject.
And remember the virulent racism that reared its ugly, ugly head when The Hunger Games came out in the theater, and a whole lot of racists who'd skipped or forgotten some pertinent adjectives in the book, discovered that, gasp, Rue was black?
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But they have MAGIC which can often be used to make travel easier, and they usually have trade if the author has thought about economics whatsoever. Why is it easier to imagine orcs and veelas than non-White people?
Plus, the author forgot another reason for the general "fantasy characters are White" assumption -- when Rowling revealed that a minor character was Black there was a massive outcry.
Feh. As you can guess (since I'm a Black woman who spent most of my first two decades reading fantasy until I gave up on it for all its quasi-Europeanness) I have opinions on this subject.
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