Maria Diedrich

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know if Maria Diedrich is a PoC? I think she is, but it doesn't seem to be explicitly stated anywhere, and I am not 100% sure.

*looks hopeful*

Comments

[falena]

If the Maria Diedrich you're talking about is a German Professor of African-American Literature, she is most definitely white:

http://www.anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Organisation/Professuren/Diedrich/CVContact.html

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Yes. That's the one. Oh darnit. I think this probably teaches me that sanguinity is always right, and if it's not explicitly stated that someone is PoC, they are probably white.

[falena]

Yes, I'm afraid so.

I LIKE THE PART ABOUT ME

[sanguinity]

Aw, see? I'm always right. I'm so glad people are beginning to realize that. :-)

Re: I LIKE THE PART ABOUT ME

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

It's a realization which I'm sure will come to all in time. :)

[waelisc.livejournal.com]

I'm having the same disappointment! I just looked up Alberto Manguel on Wikipedia; his book "A History of Reading" is on the reading list for a class I'll be taking this summer and I was excited to see a non-Anglo name there. He was born in Argentina, became a Canadian citizen, and now lives in France. But from the brief bio, I would bet his family's background was colonial era settlers, not the indigenous people of the region. Oh well.

I had a disappointment as well

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

I just read Kathleen Ann Goonan's The Bones of Time, which is absolutely outstanding. It's full of Hawaiian history and legends and future history, and boy-howdy did I want her to be a POC! Unfortunately, she seems to have picked up all her expertise just by living in Hawaii and doing good research. ;)