@article{892363,
      author = {Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/892363},
      title = {The dark fantastic : race and the imagination from Harry  Potter to The Hunger Games /},
      abstract = {The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to  speculative fiction, but when people of color seek  passageways into the fantastic the doors are often barred.  This problem lies not only with children's publishing, but  also with the television and film executives tasked with  adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters  of color do appear, they are often marginalized or  subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not  all lives matter. In an engaging and provocative  exploration of race in popular youth and young adult  speculative fiction, Thomas considers four black girl  protagonists from some popular stories of the early 21st  century and reveals how these characters mirror the  violence against black and brown people in our own world.  -- adapted from jacket},
      recid = {892363},
      pages = {vii, 225 pages :},
}