UC Riverside Professors Get Grant to Study Science Fiction by "People of Color"

Hat tip College Insurrection and The College Fix




As they say, "Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction". Science fiction, that is. A group of professors at UC Riverside have received a grant to highlight the writing of science fiction by "writers of color".

http://collegeinsurrection.com/2014/07/profs-given-grant-to-study-how-science-fiction-is-racist/


"At the University of California, Riverside, a grant was needed to explore “ethnic futurisms” — because, it seems, “there has long been an unacknowledged tradition of SF written by people of color.”