![]() ![]() ![]() And now, nearly a decade later, we have quite the number of options for reading romance telling stories of people who are not in the dominant culture. When I came back, it was a whole new ballgame. Not a lot of hope for romance novels there.Īs life caught up with me, I ended up walking away from published romance for a while. The Colorado-based novels I devoured might have had a few well-done side characters, but they also had some… interesting… Indigenous characters and I definitely recall someone saying he thought the muddy heroine he rescued (from some of said bad Native representation) might be a Tar Baby. ![]() Even the story about the Middle Eastern Caliph who took the place of his twin brother in order to rout out old-timey human trafficking involved a white-passing, Western-educated hero. ![]() Then I discovered romance novels as a tween, and a whole other world opened up for me. These are the people I wanted to know about. On top of Captain Planet and the Power Rangers, I was regularly watching movies like Glory and The Tuskegee Airmen on repeat. It didn’t hurt that, once I got out of picture books, those were where the stories about black people were often set-escaping slavery, fighting for freedom, all that jazz. I basically grew up in a national landmark, and was very much obsessed with the Civil War as a kid. ![]()
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