tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post116255575430176500..comments2024-03-26T01:10:13.720+00:00Comments on Teach Me Tonight: Black and WhiteE. M. Selingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426524354823232002noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-1162581582134328472006-11-03T19:19:00.000+00:002006-11-03T19:19:00.000+00:00I've just come across another one to add to the li...I've just come across another one to add to the list of exceptions. Mary Jo Putney was discussing <A HREF="http://wordwenches.typepad.com/word_wenches/2006/11/angel_rogue_bla.html" REL="nofollow">the re-release of her <I>Angel Rogue</I></A> and she says that the heroine,<BR/><BR/><I>Maxima Collins is ‘half Mohawk and all-American,” [...] One reason for Maxie’s mixed heritage is that romances with native Americans usually feature Plains tribes. Plus, it’s almost always the hero who has Indian blood. <BR/><BR/>Naturally, I thought this needed changing. </I><BR/><BR/>I did a double-check, and it is in fact on AAR's list of inter-ethnic romances, but there it's listed with it's original title, <I>The Rogue and the Runaway</I>, from when it was a Signet Regency, and before it got reworked into single-title length.<BR/><BR/>Brenda Jackson's had romances featuring black couples published in the Silhouette Desire line (see <A HREF="http://contemporaryromancewriters.com/series.cfm?series=the%20Westmoreland%20Series&authorID=1439" REL="nofollow">here</A> for details about her Westmoreland series, for example) but I do think that, as Putney's comments make clear, there are certain unwritten rules about the racial origins of the couples 'allowed' in the mainstream of the genre. The exceptions are still few in number, and accompanied by comments like Putney's, or put on a special list, which makes it clear that the 'rules' are still in effect. But that doesn't mean that things aren't changing. They clearly are: what readers will accept nowadays is obviously very different from what they'd accept in the days when the sheik had to turn out to be a man of European origins in disguise.Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-1162564820255789692006-11-03T14:40:00.000+00:002006-11-03T14:40:00.000+00:00FWIW, Suz Brockmann also has Harvard's Education, ...FWIW, Suz Brockmann also has <I>Harvard's Education</I>, which has both an African-American hero and heroine. The heroine from her most recent single title is Asian-American, and I think she's about to have an Hispanic-American hero in her next book.Sarah S.G. Frantzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10413768227099945783noreply@blogger.com