The Problem with Fantastical Racism
When is an orc truly just an orc? Sponsored by Incogni: https://incogni.com/princessweekesFantastical racism is when a prejudice against a non-human group serves the purpose of being an examination of real-world discrimination or bigotry. Either as an expansion of existing prejudice or by putting a mirror to audiences to explore their own biases in fiction. This has been used across a number of works of sci-fi and fantasy in novels, comics, and television shows.
On a surface level, this makes a lot of sense. There are figures and creatures in mythology based on stereotypes and racism—even some not originally rooted in those stereotypes can, due to how some of those elements have blended, end up transforming the original into something else.
Because of this, people have been primed to look at demons that are very clear in their role as an antagonistic, morally corrupt “race” and, rather than accept that piece of the world, to interrogate that to mean something deeper.
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Sources:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.53.1.65
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25746408
https://www.twomorrows.com/kirby/articles/22danzig.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stan-lees-biggest-enemy-was-racists-the-only-way-to-destroy-them-is-to-expose-them/
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/important-x-men-locations-explained-list
Douglas Wolk by All of the Marvels
“WHY IS THE ONLY GOOD ORC A DEAD ORC? THE DARK FACE OF RACISM EXAMINED IN TOLKIEN'S WORLD” by Anderson Rearick III
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition
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