The Guardian reports on a new study which has found that
The world of speculative fiction publishing is plagued by "structural, institutional, personal, universal" racism, according to a new report that found less than 2% of more than 2,000 SF stories published last year were by black writers.
The report, published by the magazine Fireside Fiction, states that just 38 of the 2,039 stories published in 63 magazines in 2015 were by black writers. With the bulk of the industry based in the US, more than half of all speculative fiction publications the report considered did not publish a single original story by a black author. "The probability that it is random chance that only 1.96% of published writers are black in a country where 13.2% of the population is black is 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000321%," says the report.
The editor of Fireside Fiction goes on to say...
"Fiction, we have a problem. We all know this. We do. We don't need numbers to see that, like everywhere in our society, marginalisation of black people is still a huge problem in publishing ... The entire system is built to benefit whiteness – and to ignore that is to bury your head in the flaming garbage heap of history."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @11:37PM
No Millenials ? Great, they can run and hide behind their mother's skirt and complain about not enough black people in heavy metal bands.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @03:15AM
You owe me a fresh can of beer and a new keyboard! The beer I was drinking seems to have escaped from my nose at high velocity and soaked my keyboard.
I'm so ashamed I'm a millennial by a day and a few hours. I got hit with the brainwashing while they were still perfecting it, but the school of hard knocks helped me shake it off. People 5-10 years younger than me are absolutely unbelievable.