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ext_20269 ([identity profile] annwfyn.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] 50books_poc2009-03-13 10:15 am
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Maria Diedrich

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*
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[personal profile] falena 2009-03-13 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
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
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[identity profile] annwfyn.livejournal.com 2009-03-13 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. That's the one. Oh darnit. I think this probably teaches me that [personal profile] sanguinity is always right, and if it's not explicitly stated that someone is PoC, they are probably white.
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[personal profile] falena 2009-03-13 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I'm afraid so.
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I LIKE THE PART ABOUT ME

[personal profile] sanguinity 2009-03-13 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, see? I'm always right. I'm so glad people are beginning to realize that. :-)
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[identity profile] annwfyn.livejournal.com 2009-03-13 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a realization which I'm sure will come to all in time. :)

[identity profile] waelisc.livejournal.com 2009-03-13 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] dakiwiboid.livejournal.com 2009-03-14 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
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. ;)
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