Also, there's a quick line in I will Fear No Evil about how unsavory it is to interact with people who spend their time complaining about minorities getting preferential treatment. Still, it's often there to be found if you look just taking Heinlein as a point of reference we have Mannie's line from TMIAHM about Wyoh sticking out on Luna because she's white and blond and the native population is generally fairly brown, and he's got a short story - the name's slipping me and my library's a time zone away but I think it was collected in Expanded Universe - where the punchline is that the token black female vice president candidate is going to take office and won't step down even though others are trying to pressure her into it because she was chosen as a token figure. I think part of the larger issue, at least as it pertains to dead-tree forms of scifi (and the need to limit it to those aspects probably indicates a serious flaw in this idea) is that authors are taking advantage of it being the future meaning that race isn't an issue anymore, and so can be ignored. Choosing to cast somebody other than the default white guy or the token "We're going to be progressive see, see!" black guy makes it look like they're accepting that race as we think of it has nothing to do with the world they're portraying and so it needn't be an issue in casting. There's no reason, in the BSG world, for the ethnicity of the actor to have anything to do with the characters since there is no Latin America in the twelve colonies. I actually think that Edward James Olmos as Adama on BSG is an excellent thing. Perhaps the experience of people in different parts of the country varies.?
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More black people than there used to be - but then, there are black SF characters on TV dating back to Lt. There's Jorge Luis Borges, but I can't think of a single other notable Latino author, let alone one that would be as recognizable in the pop-culture world as Isaac Asimov or even Octavia Butler.Īnd I can't think of a single major SF show with a Latino major or recurring character.įandom reflects this it's still a very whitebread community. (Possibly the fact that I was living in an area with almost no Latino population had something to do with it.) Johnny Rico barely counts as a young teenager reading Starship Troopers, even with his last name and the South American locations, he read entirely Anglo to me. Tonight's dinner-table conversation topic (well, one of them) was: "Where are all the Latino SF authors and characters"?
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