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url 2014-08-20 21:29
LonCon3 #3: Attendee Demographics – Are there no black sci-fi fans?

Octavia Butler8,000 people attended LonCon3 hailing from 64 countries, some as far away as Australia. Roughly 2,000 from the U.K. and 2,000 from the U.S. What the LonCon3 site doesn’t show is something I noticed as soon as I walked through the doors of the ExCeL building: the age, gender, disability and racial demographics.

 

70% or more of the attendees were over 40 – though over 60 is probably more accurate – and during the four days I was there I only saw two black faces. There were a few Middle Eastern and south and east Asians, but no black people.

 

Why?

 

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Source: literaryames.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/loncon3-3-attendee-demographics-are-there-no-black-sci-fi-fans
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The Age of Aging: How Demographics are Changing the Global Economy and Our World
The Age of Aging: How Demographics are Changing the Global Economy and Our World - George Magnus http://pro-libertate.net/20101202/138-read-age-aging
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