Sable Lit Reviews

In multicultural writing, we often get hung up on skin color, race, sexual orientation and religion. Inherent and physical characteristics are not the only elements of multicultural writing. I’ve briefly discussed gender in a cultural context and plan to address it again, but multiculturalism also includes the cultural groups formed within the work place. Because [...]

There is no one way to incorporate multicultural characters into your stories. Writers can introduce multicultural characters where they live whether that is in America or their ethnic place of origin.  Some of the most interesting multicultural stories focus on immigrants and their journey to a new land. For example, in the blog post Details [...]

Creating believable multicultural characters involves more than just making appropriate appearance changes to the character in the story to mimic society’s view of a given race or ethnic origin of people. To create a balanced and authentic character, writers should incorporate the richness of the chosen ethnic background. In the post Multicultural Identities II, I [...]

Often in the arena of multicultural writing, the topics tend to only exhibit the broadest terms or characters a mixed audience can understand. For example, I was nine years old when I moved to Arizona with my father. My parents were splitting up and my father wanted to venture out West from New Jersey. Arizona [...]

In talking to the visitors at my book signing, it made me think of something else. I thought it was odd that one of them had to ask if my book was multicultural. The reason being that she didn’t think my heroine was black enough and obviously my hero from the cover was Caucasian. I [...]