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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Tyrannohotep: 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).[/QUOTE]Speaking of which.... Let's use that as an example since that audience comes close to the audience we're talking about (the one you said you would write for and the one I said doesn't exist as a market). Notice the general topic of my blogposts. It's too early to see a pattern, because I've done only two so far. But I never post information that people are already widely talking about. I never do stuff on Eurasia. I never do stuff on Sub-Saharan Africa. That sounds harsh, but that is just the way it is. Most people who are ideologically interested in what I'm writing aren't necessarily interested in Sub-Saharan African topics, and the people who are interested in Sub-Saharan African topics, generally aren't interested in Basal Eurasian. So, since I'm writing on Basal Eurasian-related topics, I'm always writing on things relating to the crossroads between Africa and Eurasia, but from an African perspective. The topics I write about are guided by what people are interested in, not by what I ideally want to talk about. Out of the things I can write about, this is among the most naturally interesting to the most readers out there. But I can only get those people by talking about stuff from a unique angle, and many of them probably see it more as interesting food for thought than fact. (Especially back then when Basal Eurasian was more of a mystery). It would be a mistake to think that diverse audience would be a market for the Africanity of ancient Egypt. They probably just come to get their information as part of their larger blogging activity and move on. Saying Basal Eurasian is African and that a minority SSA ancestry came with it, just has a tendency to alienate people on both sides. Afrocentrics want that SSA component to dominate, and most bloggers want that SSA minority component restricted to Sub-Saharan Africa (even though they might deny it, actions speak louder than words). This leaves you with an audience that is too small and diffuse to call it a market (at least, in my view). I thought it was interesting that you disagreed with that earlier, given all the experiences we've had over the last couple of years. But maybe you have different views on what it means. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Tyrannohotep: 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.[/QUOTE]I agree. Unless you had an interesting angle. When the angle is interesting, you can get away with a controversial argument and still attract a lot of people. See Bernal. He borrowed a lot of Afrocentric ideas, repackaged it and told it from an interesting angle. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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