Speculative fiction by writers of color
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Speculative fiction is defined as science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Within those categories exists many other subcategories, for example cyberpunk, magical realism, and psychological horror.
"Person of color" is a term used in the United States to denote non-white persons, sometimes narrowed to mean non-WASP persons or non-Hispanic whites, if "ethnic whites" are included. The term "person of color" is used to redefine what it means to be a part of the historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups within Western society. A writer of color is a writer who is a part of a marginalized culture in regards to traditional Euro-Western mainstream culture. This includes Asians, African-Americans, Africans, Native Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders.
While writers of color may sometimes focus on experiences unique to their cultural heritage, which have sometimes been considered "subcategories" of national heritage (e.g. the black experience within American culture), many do not only write about their particular culture or members within that culture, in the same way that many Americans of European descent (traditionally categorized as Caucasian or white) do not only write about Western culture or members of their cultural heritage. The works of many well-known writers of color tend to examine issues of identity politics, religion, feminism, race relations, economic disparity, and the often unacknowledged and rich histories of various cultural groups.
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List of Latino authors of note
- Kathleen Alcalá
- William Alexander
- Catherine Asaro
- Giannina Braschi
- Ana Castillo<ref name=":1" />
- Daína Chaviano
- Junot Díaz<ref name=":1" />
- Eric Garcia
- Ernest Hogan
- Carmen Maria Machado<ref name=":1" />
- Alejandro Morales
- Daniel José Older
- Malka Older
- Edmundo Paz Soldan
- Alex Rivera
- Rudy Ruiz
Native American speculative fiction writers of note
- Sherman Alexie
- Winfred Blevins
- Louise Erdrich
- Owl Goingback
- Jewelle Gomez
- Stephen Graham Jones
- Daniel Heath Justice
- Susan Power
- Rebecca Roanhorse
- William Sanders (writer)
- Greg Sarris
- Leslie Marmon Silko
- Cynthia Leitich Smith
- Martin Cruz Smith
- Craig Strete
- Gerald Vizenor
Asian diaspora speculative fiction writers of note
- Aliette de Bodard
- Ted Chiang
- Wesley Chu
- Larissa Lai
- Fonda Lee
- Ken Liu
- Marjorie Liu
- Malinda Lo
- Marie Lu
- Mary Anne Mohanraj
- Vandana Singh
- Alyssa Wong
- Laurence Yep
- Charles Yu
- Kat Zhang
Anglo-Indian speculative fiction writers
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