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Calling white (or otherwise non-black) readers!
Come one, come all, to meet black authors of romance, mystery, poetry, science fiction, and every other genre and subgenre of writing, fiction or otherwise! Many of them are hidden away in the African...
View Article“The Advantages of Being White”– White Author Acknowledges White Privilege In...
I was mightily impressed by a blog post that author, Justine Larbalestier wrote a few days ago. The post was entitled, The Advantages of Being White. First a disclaimer from Justine: Disclaimer: I am...
View Article“If I never see another non-white person described as “exotic” or with...
Aint that the truth. There’s a great column over at Dear Author about cultural appropriation in romance, go read and learn. By the way, if anybody can figure out what the third commenter is talking...
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Romantic Times Introduces Best African American Romance Category… WTF?
Apparently Romantic Times has created an award category for ‘Best African American romance’. Yep, it was a big WTF? for me too. So basically, regardless of whether one’s book is a contemporary, a...
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Religion And Interracial Relationships…
Angela has a really interesting post up entitled Religion and Interracial Romance. I have an idea that using the word ‘romance’ is a bit of a misnomer though, seeing as her column seems to really be...
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Just What RomLand Needs, Another “Rubenesque” Black Heroine…
I’ve noticed an annoying trend. It seems to me that every multicultural/IR romance book that I pick up these days has a black heroine who is either ‘Rubenesque’ or “curvaceous”. Not sure why this is?...
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Koko Brown, Really? Really????
Seriously, instead of thinking about what a shit job you did writing this book, you decide to slag off the reviewer? It makes me laugh uproariously that you start off your post thusly: “As all of you...
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Romance Slam Jam Emma Awards – No Book Featuring a Non-Black Hero Can Win
Roslyn Holcomb just posted over at Goodreads about why she’ll be going to Romantic Times Convention, but not the Romance Slam Jam convention (aimed at African American writers) this year. Apparently,...
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“…romance as a pop-culture entity–fucked me up pretty severely.”– Romance Is...
I saw this post courtesy of RRRJessica this morning, and I have to say, it gave me food for thought, as well as pissed me off a tad. There’s nothing I hate more than people who bang on about feminism,...
View ArticleOn J.R. Ward’s Use of The Hip-Hop Culture, Sans The Blacks…
A reader posted this comment on on an old AztecLady thread about JR Ward’s BDB books, and I found it very interesting. Reader ‘Maggy’ writes: I’m falling away from this series due to the OBVIOUS case...
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