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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tyrannohotep: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [qb] Remember, my point isn't even that it can't be done. Bauval had a good angle. As did Bernal. Both had a huge audience as a result. And you know what I told you about my own angle. I would never start writing if I didn't have that. But just a book on North African bioanthropology? I personally don't see people lining up for that. But that's just my view based on my own experiences. Let's agree to disagree.[/qb][/QUOTE]If you have in mind a strictly academic tome about African bioanthropology that didn't bother tackling anyone's ideas about race, I would actually agree with you there. I do believe that the racial angle is what would draw the vast majority of laypeople into the subject. Race and its surrounding politics are what most people in everyday society relate to, in the end. However, from what I've seen of your blog posts, it seems like you're aiming for an audience of academics who already have a lot of anthropological and other scientific training. You know, Ph.D. or grad student types. You can't exactly say "such and such population were 'black', or would be regarded as such if we saw them today" in that kind of work (despite what you-know-who wants to think). [b]EDIT:[/b] I've thought more about this topic and think you might be right that the majority of lay readers would prefer to spend money on something that they knew validated their preconceptions. I mean, if I were to write a book on AE and other ancient North Africans, and I made it clear in my marketing that I saw them as fundamentally African, most of the people who would be willing to buy it would be people in the "Afrocentric" community. Those outside that community would be more inclined to dismiss what I had to say out of hand. The percentage of readers I'd get who weren't already "Afrocentric" but still receptive to my message would be tiny for the comparison. On the other hand, avoiding the racial angle entirely in the text or the marketing probably wouldn't attract any more lay readers than any other book on ancient Egypt that's out there. Right now, I don't actually have any plans to write a non-fiction book on the Egyptians, racial angle or not. I might enjoy writing Medium articles or Quora answers from time to time, but I suspect readers would prefer to spend money on non-fiction from a professional scholar rather than a lay enthusiast like me. I'd have more luck writing a novel, short fiction, or maybe a comic book with a fictional narrative. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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