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Just started on the James Bond novels. Quite a mental readjustment required as I have mostly been reading contemporary (and therefore relatively PC stuff) recently. Live and Let Die was a jolt. Not an overly bad one, but a jolt. I never make white/black/whatever assumptions, but I live near Detroit and I previously lived in Birmingham, England. Both noted for their "ethnic minorities". (I am pinkish with hazel eyes). And I have never lived in the 1950s. Apparently, if none of these apply, it may be necessary to specify that your non-white characters are non-white/pinkish. Every time you mention them. Describing some physical characteristic helps -especially for negroes- like the nose or lips. Just in case the reader is unable to pictue a non-white. Which might have been a real concern when the book was written, but is now so uniumaginable (to me at least) that is makes the book "interesting".
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03-04-2007, 10:58 PM
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