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How NOT to do Afrofuturism: "Sci-fi magazine publishes story about minority white race dominated by ‘Coal’ black race"

Mark A. McCutcheon
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By Mark A. McCutcheon 27 August 2012 @ 10:03am
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/21/sci-fi-magazine-publishes-story-about-minority-white-race-dominated-by-coal-black-race/

The eminent US fantasy magazine Weird Tales‘s decision to publish an extract from a [self-published] young adult novel featuring a minority white race called the Pearls that is dominated by the black race of the Coals, which has been widely described as racist, has been attacked by readers, reviewers and authors.

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Mark A. McCutcheon

Mark A. McCutcheon

Professor of Literary Studies & Chair of Centre for Humanities, Athabasca U

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