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Black Hobbits and the Whiteness of Fantasy (Plus: What Are Abbi Jacobson and Chanté Adams Into?)

Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

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Are Western Fantasy Writers and Cultures Different?

All of Western fantasy work is kind of rooted in these ideas of whiteness being good and darkness or blackness being bad. Is that the way fantasy goes all across the world? They absolutely do it differently. We have so many young first generation African millennials all over the world who are just publishing incredible fantasy stories right now.

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