Veronica Roth Talks About Portraying Race In Her Books
Вставка
- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Veronica Roth talks about portraying race in her books. Interview at 692 Broadway in NYC for BUILD Series.
BUILD is a live interview series like no other-a chance for fans to sit inches away from some of today’s biggest names in entertainment, tech, fashion and business as they share the stories behind their projects and passions. Every conversation yields insights, inspiration and plenty of surprises as moderators and audience members ask questions. It all happens several times a day live and live-streamed on BUILDseries.com.
Follow us:
TWITTER: / buildseriesnyc
FACEBOOK: / buildseriesnyc
INSTAGRAM: / buildseriesnyc
#BUILDseries
#Interview
For full schedule, tickets & more videos go to BUILDseries.com
Follow us on social media @BUILDseriesNYC
Both societies in her book are a mix of both light, dark, and medium skinned. Stop making it sound like it's a racist book when it isn't. No one side is all dark and no one side is all light.
If i hadn't heard of the controversies over this book, racism wouldn't have even come across my mind hahaha. It seems those who find it racist are the true racists here xD
Honestly preach because I didn't find any racist suggestions in this book either. I thought the book was amazing.
Do know harm...?
Explain that to the tear stains in chapter fifty!
Still my favorite book series though.
And I'm speaking really fast right now cause I did this as well but don't want you to ask it to me.
TLDR; she used the trope herself.
The main villain is 'pale' from the girl's perspective. That's not the same. Also, gratz on invoking the stale 'i don't care what all these people say, as this single one here shares MY opinion' rhetoric.
Pot. Kettle. Black. You are picking out the stuff that suits your narrative best while declaring that's a bad thing to do and accusing others of it.
Let me put it like this:
Have you heard of 'alibi characters'? Those are characters that authors who know they are messing up will put in to pretend they didn't mess up. So whether the villain is white, albinistic or 'desaturated' (in lack of a better term, cause, hey, black people pale too, surprise surprise) it wouldn't help. The 'bad guys' have so many traits that scream 'black'... or worse yet 'exotic'. So, even if the villain is intended white... it'd even be worse. Why? Cause that's again the 'black people are incapable of leading/something outstanding' bullshit.
And again: You cry for 'proof' while ignoring tons of people of all colours who DID read things as really really bad allusions. Not just the stuff that concerns race.
Then again, assuming that Roth knows that black people can 'pale' too is probably giving her too much credit.
Baa 123 justinaireland.com/dammit-this-is-a-blog/2016/12/4/the-continent-carve-the-mark-and-the-trope-of-the-dark-skinned-aggressor 2) bibliodaze.com/2017/01/review-carve-the-mark-by-veronica-roth/ 3) I'm sure she didn't purposefully write this book thinking "hey let's be racist", but this book does use a lot of harmful stereotyping which many people didn't pick up on until a POC reviewed this book.
Amitha Alex the first link you gave isn't very good at paying attention to details of CtM because she uses Cyra's mother's "kinky hair" to show that the Shotet are representative of a darker race but Cyra's Mom is white. Also, the main male character from the "good side" the Thuve is part Shotet. His family is described as dark skin. Not to mention the countless other white people described in the shotet society. And as was already said, the main villain is shotet and is white and described as very unlike Cyra in skin color. While Cyra is describing herself compared to her brother, she says so herself that the shotet are a MIX of different people. You actually have to ignore details and make up your own to find this book racist.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!