This post on Alas, A Blog fires another salvo in the whole racefail argument I've been vaguely tracking, and does it in a really clear way. Reminds me of Ursula Le Guin's complaint when she spoke here in the spring, about the editions of A Wizard of Earthsea that made Ged (described in the book as a reddish sort of guy) blond and blue-eyed...
Posted by Kathryn Hunt
at 12:44 PM EDT