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White Until Proven Black: Imagining Race in Hunger Games (New Yorker)

On Tuesday, February 28th, a twenty-nine-year-old Canadian male fan of Suzanne
Collins's dystopian young adult trilogy, "The Hunger Games," logged onto the
popular blogging platform Tumblr for the first time and created a site he
called Hunger Games Tweets. The young man, whom I'll call Adam, had been
tracking a disturbing trend among Hunger Games enthusiasts: readers who could
not believe--or accept--that Rue and Thresh, two of the most prominent and
beloved characters in the book, were black had been posting vulgar racial
remarks.

Adam, who read and fell in love with the trilogy last year, initially
encountered these sorts of sentiments in the summer of 2011, when he began
visiting Web sites, forums, and message boards frequented by the series's
fans, who were abuzz with news about the film version of the book. (The movie,
released a week ago today, made a staggering $152.5 million during its first
three days of release.) After an argument broke out in the comments section of
an _Entertainment Weekly_ post that suggested the young black actress Willow
Smith be cast as the character of Rue, he realized that racially insensitive
remarks by "Hunger Games" fans were features, not bugs. ...

New Yorker