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But Rowling's ideology cannot simply be described as anti-racist, for as strongly as she condemns racially-motivated violence, Harry Potter remains a classic work of fantasy. And fantasy is a literary genre intent, above almost all else, on the reassuring order of classification and categorization, of blood lines and inheritances.
The books do strike some blows against gender stereotypes,
But on the whole, Rowling's wizarding society conforms to boringly conventional gender roles.
The best window into how Rowling subtly critiques, yet ultimately hews to, a fantasy script dependent on stereotypes culled from real-life racism is the acrimony between humans and goblins, an important plot device in book seven.
But even as Rowling attempts to neutralize race by presenting a diverse cast of young wizards, she creates a world in which some beings are born into stereotypes they cannot overcome and that render them inherently inferior. This is, unfortunately, par for the course in the fantasy genre, in which pretend humanoid species have too often been used as a cover for our reactionary assumptions about different types of real people.

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Exactly which 'academics' are getting which fandom riled up?

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Different attitudes in different fandoms

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Asian gothic

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Murder of Meredith Kercher

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How Fan Fiction Can Teach Us a New Way to Read Moby-Dick (Part One)

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On Creativity In Fandom

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First, Epstein, a psychologist, has found that there are four different skill sets that he says are essential for creative expression.
The first and most important competency is "capturing" - preserving new ideas as they occur to you and doing so without judging them. ...
The second competency is called "challenging" - giving ourselves tough problems to solve.
The third area is "broadening." The more diverse your knowledge, the more interesting the interconnections - so you can boost your creativity simply by learning interesting new things.
And the last competency is "surrounding," which has to do with how you manage your physical and social environments. The more interesting and diverse the things and people around you, the more interesting your own ideas become.
The similarities to fandom activity struck me as soon as I first read this.
In other words, failure actually stimulates creativity directly. It really is valuable.

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In Which Rolanni Flails About

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First, we kill the curriculum

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This is a really good example of why Socratic inquiry really works. Because the first step in analysing any media product is to look at things like age and gender and race, but the second step is to examine the underlining factors that create our biases about those very things.

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