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Feminist SF, like SF generally, has handled issues of race, ethnicity, racial prejudice, and institutionalized racism in all manner of ways over the years. Some examples: | |||
* creating diverse representations within the story without specifically focusing on race; | |||
* radical anti-racist treatments; | |||
* "color-blind" treatments; | |||
* stories focused on racism as understood in the historical and present-day Earth societies; | |||
* stories metaphorically treating race and racism in the contexts of aliens, demons, or other kinds of "others"; | |||
* stories treating themes that have particular resonance with racism as historically experienced on earth, including slavery or anti-miscegenation laws; | |||
* stories embodying explicitly or propounding explicitly racist ideologies. | |||
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Revision as of 15:52, 11 July 2006
Feminist SF, like SF generally, has handled issues of race, ethnicity, racial prejudice, and institutionalized racism in all manner of ways over the years. Some examples:
- creating diverse representations within the story without specifically focusing on race;
- radical anti-racist treatments;
- "color-blind" treatments;
- stories focused on racism as understood in the historical and present-day Earth societies;
- stories metaphorically treating race and racism in the contexts of aliens, demons, or other kinds of "others";
- stories treating themes that have particular resonance with racism as historically experienced on earth, including slavery or anti-miscegenation laws;
- stories embodying explicitly or propounding explicitly racist ideologies.