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: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:15AM
Just out of curiosity, how do you access SoylentNews? Do you use the main page, or an RSS feed? Do you have to click on the "SJW" article?
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(Score: 2) by fleg on Saturday August 13 2016, @02:23AM
>We're going to have to censor your content!
"Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being repressed!" ;)
i hoped the article would generate some interesting comments.
there's been some drivel but also quite a lot of reasonable, civilised debate.
the lentils did well.
now, lets see how the phoning home vibrator article goes down
(or, up?)