The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games History- Africa After the king of a

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The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games History- Africa After the king of aStories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. 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 childrens 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