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Also other minority power groups...
I have no idea what puts this in people's brains that PoC issues are the same as hair color and eye color.
(I've also seen this said about QUILTBAG too).
I've never actually run into this with the popular media, but I've run into this with discussions with other writers before (and readers defending), where they think it's the same.
And no, I'm not saying that these issues need to be foregrounded so it takes over the story, but somehow, the issues of say, having black hair versus, say, brown hair don't seem as important as say, the history of slavery against African Americans and the subsequent efforts of subjugation and dehumanization because of skin color and how that relates to real people right now reading your book in the real world.
Hair color does have stereotypes (though most of them are launched at women v. men... and disguise a lot of women's issues. Such as blonde jokes.)
But anyone have an idea exactly where this idea that hair color is the same as the issues of minority power groups comes from? Is there a historical pinpoint, or is it just immersed in the overall majority guilt and privilege thing that it just happens to pop up in reader and writer discussions? (I can't find a historical pinpoint... but I truly would like to know... helps me understand the landscape a bit better. Also makes it easier to defeat.)
I have no idea what puts this in people's brains that PoC issues are the same as hair color and eye color.
(I've also seen this said about QUILTBAG too).
I've never actually run into this with the popular media, but I've run into this with discussions with other writers before (and readers defending), where they think it's the same.
And no, I'm not saying that these issues need to be foregrounded so it takes over the story, but somehow, the issues of say, having black hair versus, say, brown hair don't seem as important as say, the history of slavery against African Americans and the subsequent efforts of subjugation and dehumanization because of skin color and how that relates to real people right now reading your book in the real world.
Hair color does have stereotypes (though most of them are launched at women v. men... and disguise a lot of women's issues. Such as blonde jokes.)
But anyone have an idea exactly where this idea that hair color is the same as the issues of minority power groups comes from? Is there a historical pinpoint, or is it just immersed in the overall majority guilt and privilege thing that it just happens to pop up in reader and writer discussions? (I can't find a historical pinpoint... but I truly would like to know... helps me understand the landscape a bit better. Also makes it easier to defeat.)