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From: Elaine <eleanora>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:59:12 -0400
I've been following this discussion with interest. Of course race matters. Race matters in America. Listen to the newscasts and see who gets identified by race, especially in crime stories. Race matters, in my mind, in books, too. I have often found thatsome white writers write about Black chracters and identify them as such, but when writing about white characters (the physical description sometimes gives it away) often do not identify the ethnicity. It's assumed. We writers are told to develop multi-dimensional characters. To me a character without a race or ethnicity isn't human. A character without some sort of background? Does such a character just pop up out of nowhere? Not in my books. Eleanora E. Tate, Author
Received on Wed 11 Jul 2001 10:59:12 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:59:12 -0400
I've been following this discussion with interest. Of course race matters. Race matters in America. Listen to the newscasts and see who gets identified by race, especially in crime stories. Race matters, in my mind, in books, too. I have often found thatsome white writers write about Black chracters and identify them as such, but when writing about white characters (the physical description sometimes gives it away) often do not identify the ethnicity. It's assumed. We writers are told to develop multi-dimensional characters. To me a character without a race or ethnicity isn't human. A character without some sort of background? Does such a character just pop up out of nowhere? Not in my books. Eleanora E. Tate, Author
Received on Wed 11 Jul 2001 10:59:12 AM CDT
