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A few articles have come out today, completely bashing the young adult novel about a distopian society where white people are the minority.
Here's a youtube video of a white woman in blackface promoting the book.
I think this book, and the chatter around it, is a pretty good example of white privilege. The articles def reminded me of some of the threads on this board.
Hoping to capitalize off of the popularity of dystopian young adult novels like The Hunger Games, Foyt constructed a narrative in which, she explains, “Solar radiation has wiped out most of the white race whose lack of melanin causes them to succumb to the Heat.
The survivors, called Pearls, suffer from oppression under the new majority of dark-skinned Coals.” In the new world, Eden must rely on Bramford, a Coal. As Foyt describes it, Pearls is “a Beauty and the Beast story in which both parties must find self-acceptance before they can discover true love.”
Say what?
http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-07-27...lackface-and-bizarre-racist-stereotypes-plot/
Victoria Foyt is failing readers of color. What is in this novel for black and brown children other than self hate? We’re talking about a society where images of beautiful women of color are rarely shown in mass media. Hell, there are barely any women of color in mass media to begin with.
The novel rings forth as not only harmful, but intentionally spiteful. Either Victoria Foyt is the most naive, backward thinking author since Joseph Conrad, or she’s a thoroughgoing racist. I can’t find an in between here.
http://theblackkidstable.com/2012/07/27/save-the-pearls-a-white-womans-worst-nightmare/
My question to the board. Have you read it? What do you think?