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Is it just me or do I get the feeling that people often forget that Akasha is canonly from Uruk, she’s Sumerian… Enkil on the other hand who people rarely even give a mention to is a pre-dynastic Kemetian. Akasha merely moved and adopted Kemet as her own when she made union with him. Both are undeniably PoC, and this is all up to reader interpretation, but Akasha in a historical sense is more likely to be Asiatic/Middle Eastern.

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Thanks for sharing this background info, anon! Very informative.

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cloudsinvenice:

i-want-my-iwtv:

katzenfabrik replied to your post: anonymous said:So, David is an or…

I think the body’s original owner is described as Anglo-Indian, a term that makes me think of the British Raj, though Wikipedia says it’s still in use today.

mickimonster said:

he was either pakistani or indian
the body belonged to the son of indian immigrants [if I am not mistaken. idk, read that book a month ago but not very carefully]

Does anyone remember the first time it’s mentioned? If you don’t mind sending me a quote, just curious. Just can’t find it myself 😛

Some people of mixed English and Indian descent self-describe as Anglo-Indian; I’m thinking of a friend of my mother’s in this case. But that’s not to say that’s what Anne Rice meant in this instance – I’m digging through the text online but no luck finding the quote so far.

However! I did find an academic paper that, at a glance, looks super-relevant: 

Becoming-Other: (Dis)Embodiments of Race in Anne Rice’s Tale of the Body Thief – Trevor Holmes, University of Guelph: http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2006/v/n44/014004ar.html

cloudsinvenice: #vampire chronicles, #david talbot, #the tale of the body thief, #i get that it’s super bad form to delete stuff from posts you reblog but I took out the question with the racist slur, #because what the fucking fuck

Thanks for answering that, will have to read that article, I’m intrigued that someone tackled it as a subject!

Also, re: your other good point in your tags, I should have deleted that racist thing myself, but when I published that question I addressed in my response that the term is deragotory. I published it bc it did raise the question regarding how David must have felt about being a different ethnicity.