The origins of U.S. mass‐market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s

Kamblé, Jayashree

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“…Some discuss racism directly or indirectly, others do not. Cole's A Princess in Theory, the first of her Reluctant Royals series, is another great example of a scientist protagonist whose interior life employs the language of anti-racist critique, especially when it comes to gendered racism in STEM (Kamblé, 2023).…”

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Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and now

Kamble

2023

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English-language mass-market romance novels written by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) writers and starring BIPOC protagonists are a small but important group. This article is a comparative analysis of how recent representations of diversity in this sub-set of the genre, specifically the character of the Black academic and the language of racial justice, compare with the first group of BIPOC novels that were published in 1984 (Sandra Kitt’s Adam and Eva and All Good Things as well as Barbara Stephens’s A Toast to Love). In Adrianna Herrera’s American Love Story (2019), Katrina Jackson’s Office Hours (2020), and Talia Hibbert’s Take a Hint, Dani Brown (2020), the authors deploy the academic protagonists and setting to stage the intersections of gender, queerness, race, class, and immigrant histories, particularly as they manifest in academia, the supposed haven of free thought. In contrast to the 1984 BIPOC academic romantic protagonist, the more recent incarnation voices the cost that racism and sexism imposes even on seemingly successful people of color and articulates the structural changes and reparative policies that must be adopted for true equity.

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“…For more on this history, see Grady (2020),Jenkins (2022), andKamblé (2023).3 For further discussion on this issue of the sidelining of BIPOC, seeJenkins (2022),Hendricks (2022),Kamblé (2023) and Ripped Bodice (2022).…”

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Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and now

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2023

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The origins of U.S. mass‐market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s

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Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and now

Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and now

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