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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Writing the Other Author Maurice Broaddus has a good post today about white authors writing black characters, particularly in horror fiction. He writes: In the stories I read, white characters don't announce their whiteness or make note that they were talking to other black characters. Yet, when "an other" enters the scene, race is automatically ascribed. (I know there is a Harlan Ellison quote about this, but I can't recall it right now). I'd notice a tendency to "announce" the race of my characters in my own stories, something that never came up when my fellow black horror writers were discussing writing black writers. So, assuming the posture of the majority, maybe I should only announce the race of a character when a white person enters the scene. Read the full post.
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