Race and feminist SF

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.

See Also

• Cultural Appropriation (WisCon 30 Panel) and ensuing blog debate
• Joss Whedon & Race on the feminist SF blog (original post by Laura Quilter; substantial commentary on the blog & at [whedonesque.com/comments/10799 Whedonesque]

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