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posted by cmn32480 on Friday August 12 2016, @09:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-how-do-you-fix-it dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:39AM (#387286)

    When the tech field is still overwhelmingly white male, [vox.com] you are just a whiner who can't accept his own inadequacies.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:47AM (#387291)

    You're the overconfident elitist who's next to get laid off.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:55AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:55AM (#387292)

      > You're the overconfident elitist who's next to get laid off.

      I recognized my own weaknesses a long time ago and capitalized on my strengths by becoming an independent contractor. I don't get laid off, I fire clients.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @01:15AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @01:15AM (#387299)

        That's so funny. You already got laid off, and now you're self-unemployed with delusions of power.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @01:21AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @01:21AM (#387300)

          That's right, keep wallowing in your self-pity.
          Even if I were delusional, your claim about not catching a break because you are a white male is not supported by the data.