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"USian" is great but most people haven't encountered that term.
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(Also for those who are unclear, "USian" is a term coined by the charming and brilliant Justine Larbalestier (we believe, someone correct us if we are wrong) to refer to US citizens).
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The editor is to be commended for realizing that this tendency to “default to white” exists in USian readers … but the particular method he or she used to address the problem feels almost painfully heavy-handed.
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In the comments to her post on the recent Nobel dust-up, Gwenda Bond used the term "USian" -- something I've been saying myself but have never seen anywhere else.
Out of the Woods Now 2008
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In the comments to her post on the recent Nobel dust-up, Gwenda Bond used the term "USian" -- something I've been saying myself but have never seen anywhere else.
Out of the Woods Now 2008
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In the comments to her post on the recent Nobel dust-up, Gwenda Bond used the term "USian" -- something I've been saying myself but have never seen anywhere else.
Out of the Woods Now 2008
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And I really like the term USian, because in fact people who live anywhere in North and South America are Americans.
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However, the USian (hee!) publishing industry is inarguably made of up of mostly white people at all levels, and also mostly upper-middle-class white people from fancy colleges (believe us, it is a sad state of affairs when WE qualify as "diversity").
Special Guest Post: Zetta Elliott on the Myth of Meritocracy 2010
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All the more reason why it is so important for us white folks (USian and non) to educate ourselves, to LISTEN, and to do everything in our power to make space for other people to be heard.
Special Guest Post: Zetta Elliott on the Myth of Meritocracy 2010
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It occurs to me as I type this that part of the problem is that we * don't* have a good generic term for people who are culturally USian -- and yes, I stole that word from Justine Larbalestier.
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