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4.5 Stars
This was such a great read! It had a lot of suspense to keep the pages turning but not so much as to give you anxiety. I love the diverse cast and the characterization was fantastic! It is first-person and switches between Louisa (the biracial main character) Ellen (the female volunteer for the RAF, Who couldn't fully enlist because of her Traveller heritage) and Jamie, the cocky fighter pilot trying to keep his men alive. A definite recommendation! YA Historical fiction.
Does anyone have tips on drawing biracial characters?
Specifically a biracial Indian-White mtnb character (as in, from india indian, not native american indian). I saw a map once, but I can’t find it now, and I really want to do light justice and depict light accurately.
biracial cowboy anyone???
I bought and started this book today. I'm generally on a quest for female-centric urban fantasy that isn't just Mills & Boon with vampires (Kelley Armstrong and Seanan McGuire are the best I've found). This...isn't that. It's set in the Wild West and the protagonist might not be a girl at all. I like it.
Meet Briggs!
Full name: Joaquin Hidalgo-Briggs
Yeah, we have two characters in this series with hyphenated last names, big whoop, wanna fight about it? (… man the show that comes from doesn’t even use that joke anymore. I may be dating myself a bit here). Briggs was unfortunately one of many young Latin men, half or not, whose first name was a bit too tricky for his four-year-old English raised monolingual friends. So Briggs it is and Briggs it will be! Though the gang has taken to calling him Joaquin over serious matters in recent years.
As stated with David, Briggs has known him and Lilah since they were practically in diapers. David is a person he highly respects as he is very passionate and quick witted, traits Briggs admires. He’s very loving, almost puppy dog or little brother like with Lilah as he particularly likes making her laugh or annoying her… whichever comes first. Briefly when they were five he did have a bit of a crush on her. Over time though his love developed to a more familial level. Besides, even he could tell her heart was always elsewhere.
Mary and Carrie were very welcome additions to the group in middle school. Carrie being a lot like him in a lot of ways, being very upbeat and loveable people. And Mary being very compassionate and sort of like a David-Lite in personality (in his opinion)… the fact he finds her younger sister, Lynne, cute is just a bonus. Out of anyone in the group Briggs probably trusts Sam the most, quickly buddying up to him, even before he joined the club.
Briggs comes from the biggest family in the group, being the second eldest of five kids. This does come with its own sets of problems and explanations that will be explored later in the story. He loves horror movies, with a soft spot for 80′s slasher flicks, he also loves comics and going camping with his dad being the most “outdoorsy” in the club.
That is all for Briggs, next time we take a look at our tsundere of all trades Lilah! But you don’t have to show up for that… it’s not like she likes you or anything…
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I am currently writing a book. There is a couple of biracial characters–1 white parents and 1 poc parent–I have in there. I've been seeing ppl lately pointing out that biracial characters are just a way to scatter "token" poc into the story, but for mine, I actually think their parentage makes sense. Do you think this is ok? You seem to know a lot about this. What is your opinion on it?
“You seem to know a lot about this” I just talked yesterday about how I don’t have a whole lot of authority talking about race, but I appreciate the vote of confidence anyway :’)
Unfortunately, for your case, I don’t really have a whole lot of information about the story to decide (and of course, I understand not wanting to explain your whole story on the internet). In general, the issue with biracial characters tends to come from them being part white and “white passing” (a term which is pretty complicated and I’m pretty sure some biracial people would use it and some would find it offensive), and treating the biracial character like they’re white. So basically, whitewashing. Don’t forget that, if your world is white-centric, biracial people are poc first, and you should treat them as such.
As for them being tokens…well, that’s mostly going to depend on how the rest of your world/story looks like. TVTropes has an page called “But Not Too Black” which ties into that (among other issues); if you made the character biracial but the rest of the story is overwhelmingly white, you might have an issue anyway. Basically, it’s the same issue you’d have with any token character—as far as I can tell.
I’ll just add that when you say “their parentage makes sense”, if you mean it makes sense in-universe, that…frankly doesn’t matter. I mean, stories usually need internal logic, but that’s not what people will (or should) look at when discussing real-life issues and implication. Internal logic is the basic requirement, if you will.
