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Dec 14, 2013

On The Racial Identity of Fictional Characters

Creative Commons photo by Eric C. Castro Ever since Aisha Harris inaugurated the Great Black Santa Controversy of 2013 one notion that’s troubled me is the idea that Megyn Kelly is wrong to insist that Santa is white because Santa is a fictional character—as if fictional characters don’t have racial…

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On The Racial Identity of Fictional Characters
On The Racial Identity of Fictional Characters

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