Romantic Times Introduces Best African American Romance Category… WTF?
Wednesday, December 30, 2009Posted in: Racism in romance
Apparently Romantic Times has created an award category for ‘Best African American romance’. Yep, it was a big WTF? for me too.
So basically, regardless of whether one’s book is a contemporary, a paranormal, or a regency, if said book has black characters in them, then it automatically goes into the black pot? Hmmm…
I get what RT are trying to do, but for me, this just otherfies AA romance even more.
Mrs Giggles was also bemused by the development, and had this to say: (more…)