Rethinking Race in Fantasy: an evidence-based approach

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To be unambiguous right at the start: I don’t think there is any need to justify having diverse characters in any genre of fiction. People asking for justification, on those occasions where fiction does make use of representational characters, are rarely well motivated.

That being said, and to quote Lindsay Ellis, “The legacy of colonialism is baked into every facet of…