The Fantasy Subgenre Remains Too Stuck in Its White-Centric Ways.

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This week has seen a lot of hand-wringing, yelling, and controversy surrounding Black hobbits.

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When darker-skinned characters were introduced in The Rings of Power, Tolkien fans went crazy.

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This is the topic of the latest issue.

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As Shantieh Adams of A League of Their Own put it in the Into It / Not Into It trailer.

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White people often find it challenging to identify with characters who are not like them.

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For a long time, black people have faced this issue. White people must now carry out that problem as well.

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When anything in their experience is not centered on them, it ruffles some feathers.

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Sam Sanders, the show's host, contacted Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, a professor at the University of Michigan.

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The author of The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination discusses the divisive response to the casting of The Rings of Power.

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