if you don’t never go to but ONE science fiction conference in your big, beautiful life, then let it be, let it be WISCON 30, because this year is going to be amazing.
Sheree Renée Thomas is the editor of DARK MATTER: READING THE BONES, winner of the 2005 World Fantasy Award and the New York Times Notable Book of the Year landmark volume, DARK MATTER: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, winner of the 2001 World Fantasy Award and the Gold Pen Award.
Big white boy, little Native American
The Incredible Shrinking…
and Expanding Ethnic Minority
or The Racist in the Cupboard
Unwilling body alterations give these “instant kiddie classics” disturbing undertones
By Gary Morris, in Bright Lights Film Journal
While the exact details are sketchy, historians agree that Pocahontas was probably 10 or 12 years old, not the twentysomething sex bomb of the film.
BY GARY MORRIS, in Bright Lights Film Journal
excerpt:
The physical growth of America depended on the expropriation of land and the colonization of its owners, a process mythologized in stories of the Old West with its self-sacrificing settlers, brave pioneers, and romantic gunslingers. The enemies were Native Americans and Mexicans who resisted the white outsiders who came armed with both weapons and a self-derived moral/religious sanction. American appropriation of European science fiction followed a similar, if less bloody, pattern…
