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Q&A Avoiding racist tropes in fantasy

An alternative could be to not discuss the skin color etc of the fantasy races but make the humans in the story dark-skinned. I think that Daughter of the Empire by Janny Wurts and Raymond E. Feist...

posted 4y ago by lijat‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T12:46:20Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar lijat‭ · 2019-12-08T12:46:20Z (over 4 years ago)
An alternative could be to not discuss the skin color etc of the fantasy races but make the humans in the story dark-skinned. I think that Daughter of the Empire by Janny Wurts and Raymond E. Feist does a good job of this, in that story, the vast majority of humans are of color.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-08-21T09:25:29Z (over 4 years ago)
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