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The Dark Fantastic
Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children’s publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter. The Dark Fantastic is an enga...
Black Stereotypes in Popular Series Fiction, 1851-1955
Even well-meaning fiction writers of the late Jim Crow era (1900-1955) perpetuated racial stereotypes in their depiction of black characters. From 1918 to 1952, Octavus Roy Cohen turned out a remarkable 360 short stories featuring Florian Slappey and the schemers, romancers and ditzes of Birmingham's Darktown for The Saturday Evening Post and other publications. Cohen said, "I received a great deal of mail from Negroes and I have never found any resentment from a one of them." The black readership had to be satisfied with any black presence in the popular literature of the day. The best known white writers of black characters included Booth Tarkington (Herman and Verman in the Penrod books),...
Life's Little Ironies
Life's Little Ironies: A Few Crusted Characters by Thomas Hardy, 1894."To the eyes of a man viewing it from behind, the nut-brown hair was a wonder and a mystery.Under the black beaver hat, surmounted by its tuft of black feathers, the long locks, braided and twisted andcoiled like the rushes of a basket, composed a rare, if some-what barbaric, example of ingenious art.One could understand such weavings and coilings being wrought to last intact for a year, or even a calendar month;but that they should be all demolished regularly at bedtime, after a single day of permanence, seemed a reckless wasteof successful fabrication."And she had done it all herself, poor thing. She had no maid, and it ...
