I now understand what you mean about Gerald Early being from St. Louis. You St. Louis negroes are interesting - to say the least.
~rave:) --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Hayden" <belsidus2...@...> wrote: > > So while immigrant Diaz can be construed as a Dominican-American writer or > even a Pan-American writer, he is not an African-American writer > > (To quote Gerald Early, the Senior Editor, from page x of his introduction.. > > "What is an AFrican American? This question has no obvious or even objective > answer. For the purposes of these volumes (there will be more) I choose a > broad definition: an African American is any person of color from anywhere > in the recognized Afrian Diaspora who lives in the United States either > temporarily or permanently, wo writes in English, and who is published by a > American based publisher or an American based publication" > > > For myself, I would not have drawn it that narrowly. I would have made it > any person of African descent who lives in or has lived in the Western > Hemisphere. > > Call it Obamamania on my part.) > > > And, when editors feel the need to broaden the category it fosters the > erroneous notion that there aren't enough "real" African-American authors to > include in such an anthology. > > > (I can't speak for them. You should contact them and start a dialog. > > For my part all I can say is, it's their ball and their game and if I want > something different I should do my own anthology--at which point somebody > will have a beef about how I define African American. > > We see this all the time when people are trying to define Speculative Fiction. > > Query: I wonder if any of the people selected objected and asked to be > excluded from it?) > > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" <ravenadal@> wrote: > > > > I >
