I DON'T NEED WHITE HEROES.

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inkstone: Silver Phoenix is getting a new cover . . . Whitewashing at its finest, folks. Signal boost the FUCK out of this, vote with your money, and do whatever else you can.

bossymarmalade : but we must always be polite about it This is another reason why stories matter.

megwrites: Attack of the Whitewashing Strikes Back Again! More on Silver Phoenix and whitewashing.

Roger Ebert's review of TLA Fairly interesting even if you are sick of hearing about the whole thing (which I am not, yet). He takes a good section or two to discuss the racist implications.

The almost-full (missing his last album) discography of Nujabes, aka the Samurai Champloo composer. I'm not usually a fan of hip-hop, but he did some great stuff.

Comments

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I gotta say, if I see a book with a POC on the cover I'm about fifty times more likely to pick it up than if it has half a white chick's face on it. Somehow publishers have not picked up on this. *too tired for raeg*

(Also, something clever I hadn't noticed about the original cover before: she has her clothes crossed right over left, which -- I'm pretty sure has the same connotation in China as in Japan, namely that it's something only done for dead bodies. And the title is Silver Phoenix.)

It is a good icon, indeed. :D