Yuletide 2009 Fandoms with White / Western / Other Source Creators

[dhobikikutti]

Note: In my personal hierarchy of diversity, it is more important to support chromatic creators, and sources made by the people they represent. In addition, many White and Western sources come with deeply problematic racial and cultural depictions of their characters, and yet they end up being more popular and disseminated than more authentic representations.
That said, many of us love sources that are problematic for a variety of reasons, and as fans, one of the wonderful things we can do is produce fic that critiques, challenges and complicates the flaws in the source.
So if you do decide to write for these (and seriously, do it in addition to rather than instead of writing for the first list), please make sure you hunt for critique of the source, and write something that does not add to the problems of misrepresentation.

List of Chromatic Characters in White/Western/Other Created Yuletide 2009 Fandoms

PLEASE USE THIS FORM TO ADD INFORMATION TO THIS LIST (Made by the wonderful thuviaptarth)
Links to posts that comment on the source's racial and cultural representations are especially needed. We'll be editing this post continually to keep up with new information as we get it, so corrections, explanations, and counter-opinions to any commentary about the source is most welcome.

Comments

Re: A Question

[dark_administrator]

We're trying to post a third list with chromatic characters in secondary worlds, and it sounds like this fandom would fit that category?

Re: A Question

[lesserstorm.livejournal.com]

That list would be cool, but I think this character should probably be on the real-world list -- it's a portal fantasy type thing; he falls through a door into another world from what looks like a coup or at least a lot of civil unrest. So although most of the action is secondary world, the characters are definitely from our world and it's the real world stuff that's most interesting in character terms. But you can see my problem with working out where to put it.

(In fairness, I can't tell from the book whether the white heroine is North American, European or something else, so it's not only West whose given back story is minimal).