{"id":1756,"date":"2008-11-10T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:12","slug":"malorie-blackman-at-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1756","title":{"rendered":"Malorie Blackman at The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;I hate being labelled,&#8221; she says today, ensconced in the chic caf\u00e9 at the top of Waterstone&#8217;s Piccadilly, where she&#8217;s requested hot water to mix with the cold remedy she&#8217;s determinedly sipping on. &#8220;Through my whole writing career it seems people have always been criticising me for not tackling racism. But things like even having black characters on covers when I first started was a bit of a political statement, because I&#8217;ve had more than one bookseller say to me &#8216;that book would sell better if you didn&#8217;t put black people on the cover&#8217;.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/nov\/10\/malorie-blackman-double-cross-noughts-crosses\" target= _blank>Malorie Blackman is interviewed by Allison Flood<\/a> at the Guardian about her book, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.malorieblackman.co.uk\/noughtsandcrosses\/index2.html\" target= _blank>Noughts and Crosses<\/a><\/i>, which can perhaps be described kind of like <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/opinion\/2002152644_mlk17.html\" target= _blank>Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes<\/a> (the sociology classroom experiment) meets Romeo and Juliet. The Crosses have all the power and influence, and are brown; the Noughts have nothing, and aren&#8217;t. An interesting series, and a fascinating interview with an author who didn&#8217;t really want to write about racism, because, since she is black, it was kind of&#8230;expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I hate being labelled,&#8221; she says today, ensconced in the chic caf\u00e9 at the top of Waterstone&#8217;s Piccadilly, where she&#8217;s requested hot water to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,86],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views","tag-web-wanderings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5292,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/5292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}