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Author: StarValkyrie

Jul 30th 2013 at 9:30:02 PM

^^^^ You just assume that we haven't.  One of those Motion to Discards is mine, I posted my reasons as they were then back in Feb. and that's still where I'm at now because those reasons haven't changed.  I can maybe, maybe, see a trope for Racial Provincialism as Sackett mentioned above because that at least allows space for international examples which do share many similarities to what I think you're getting at, but even then, I think that Racial Provincialism would be in danger of simply becoming a list of racial minority media (which would be a genre index, not a trope and I think(?) the opposite of what you're trying to point out about how race is represented in fiction).  I think this trope even as it is is also in danger of this with or without the TropesInAggregate tag.  So how about let's start with something simple: I need you to tell me more about what examples of this trope would be.  You have no examples at all and I'm not even sure what an example would be.  Are you imagining a trope where examples are particularly egregious works on white writing minorities?  Or are you looking for a list of aversions - would those be works written by minority writers or works where minority characters are written well?  And how is the way racial minorities are handled specifically different from how other minorities?

There's a lot of work to do to get this proposal ready to launch.  Right now, it's a dissertation with no examples which means you could, at most, make it a Useful Note.  If you launch it like this, it will only get kicked back.  YKTTW exists to help prospective tropes so let it do its job.  That also means you need to actually work on the issues that people point out, not so evil/narrow-minded people will cough up the hats, but so this can grow from a modest proposal into a functional trope (hats are merely a byproduct - they happen when the trope actually starts to work).