Race and genre online

Okay, this is several weeks out of date for the relevant tutorials but some of you may still want to read this.

Shame, an essay by Pam Noles about race experience in genre, sparked by the thing where Hollywood picked up Earthsea, one of the first major genre works to feature non-white powerful good guys, and making the hero into a blonde-haired white boy. (The different nature of the experience of race for whites and non-whites was made quite clear by fan reactions to this. Most white responses I read were along the lines of: "That's kinda stupid, but, EARTHSEA YAY!" Whereas to many black fans this felt like a horrendous betrayal.) There's also a follow-up replying to the responses she received to Shame.