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Edward James, “Yellow, Black, Metal, and Tentacled: The Race Question in American Science Fiction” was originally published in Science Fiction, Social Conflict, and War, edited by Philip John Davies. Used by permission of Manchester University Press.

First printing 2014

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Black and brown planets : the politics of race in science fiction / edited by Isiah Lavender III.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-62846-123-7 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-62846-124-4 (ebook) 1. Science fiction,
American—History and criticism. 2. Race in literature. 3. Minorities in literature. I. Lavender,

Isiah, editor.

PS374.S35B55 2014

813’.08762093529—dc23                                                          2014010170

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