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Science Fiction and Fantasy

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Breakfast Speech

Ursula K. Le Guin’s speech at a BookExpo America breakfast event (link from Neil Gaiman‘s site):

Assumption 1: The characters are white. Even when they aren’t white in the text, they are white on the cover….

I have received letters that broke my heart, from adolescents of color in this country and in England, telling me that when they realized that Ged and the other Archipelagans in the Earthsea books are not white people, they felt included in the world of literary and movie fantasy for the first time. Worth thinking about?