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A Guide to Black Friendly Young Adult Fantasy

A Guide to Black Friendly Young Adult Fantasy

By Muna Mire on August 6, 2012

Victoria Foyt is making a lot of people angry. Her latest fantasy novel Save the Pearls prominently features a thinly veiled racist allegory set in a “dystopic” future where people of colour are the ruling class and white folks are oppressed. It’s a novel aimed at young adults. Young white adults. Others have gone in [...]

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