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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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