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White Until Proven Black: Imagining Race in Hunger Games

Anna Holmes writes for The New Yorker: “On Tuesday, February 28th, a twenty-nine-year-old Canadian male fan of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian young adult trilogy, ‘The Hunger Games,’ logged onto the popular blogging platform Tumblr for the first time and created a site he called Hunger Games Tweets. The young man, whom I’ll call Adam, had been tracking a disturbing trend among Hunger Games enthusiasts: readers who could not believe–or accept–that Rue and Thresh, two of the most prominent and beloved characters in the book, were black, had been posting vulgar racial remarks.”