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Save the Pearls

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Save the Pearls	label	Save the Pearls
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Save the Pearls	comment	Save The Pearls is a two-book young-adult series written by American author Victoria Foyt, about a post-apocalyptic dystopian future in which black people have taken over and white people are a persecuted minority. The first book in the series, Revealing Eden, was published in 2012. The second book, Adapting Eden, was published in 2013.
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Save the Pearls / int_16178c64	type	Gratuitous Spanish
Save the Pearls / int_16178c64	comment	Gratuitous Spanish: Courtesy of the native tribe, reading like it came straight off of Google Translate.
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Save the Pearls / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Save the Pearls / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: In the post-apocalyptic world in which the books take place, the Coals have become the majority because they have more melanin, and thus have more resistance to the sun, and an innate resistance to skin cancer ("the heat"). While it's true that darker skin does give increased protection from the sun, the author tends to treat it as a blanket immunity, which is an unfortunate misconception that in real life has led to preventable deaths, since there are been cases where skin cancer isn't recognized as early in dark-skinned people as it likely would have been in people with light skin.
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Save the Pearls / int_2af0378f	type	Mayincatec
Save the Pearls / int_2af0378f	comment	Mayincatec: Somehow the Aztecs and an Ecuadorian tribe live side by side in this setting, despite both cultures being separated by thousands of miles in real life. The stone terraces built by the Inca make an appearance but are credited to the Aztecs.
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Save the Pearls / int_2ec87029	type	Sadly Mythtaken
Save the Pearls / int_2ec87029	comment	Sadly Mythtaken: Aztec Mythology gets properly butchered in this book. Bramford is hailed by the native tribe as "El Tigre," the jaguar god prophesied to return to rule again. Ignoring the fact that it's unlikely that a South American tribe would call their jaguar god "the tiger", the Aztec god associated with the jaguar was actually called Tezcatlipoca, while the Aztec god prophesied to return again was Quetzalcoatl. Likewise, a snake goddess from Aztec mythology, Coatlicue, is appropriated as the Huaorani guardian of the afterlife, when Coatlicue was actually a mother goddess in the original mythology.
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Save the Pearls / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Save the Pearls / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: A massive solar flare has caused the collapse of civilization.
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Save the Pearls / int_39a2d446	type	Preppy Name
Save the Pearls / int_39a2d446	comment	Preppy Name: Ronson Bramford is a wealthy businessman with a very upper-class sounding name.
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Save the Pearls / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Save the Pearls / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: The series is ostensibly a fable about the foolishness of racism, set in a world where an environmental catastrophe has left melanin content as a prized thing, with blacks on top and whites on the bottom, with an interracial romance to drive home the point. What it is, however, is a series where white people are called "Pearls" and blacks are called "Coals," the white female lead starts off severely uncomfortable around black people (to the point of using slurs like "haughty Coal" in inner monologue), white people often wear blackface to "pass," the white lead is threatened with rape at the hands of a giant black man, and the love story is described as a "Beauty and the Beast" fable where the black love interest literally turns into a beast thanks to genetic engineering. Also in regards to Bramson, his being turned into a chimera is treated as him having a chance to understand what it's like to experience being a social pariah... except that he was one of the most fair characters in the cast (protecting Eden multiple times from black people trying to kill her, hiring a white woman for a good position as stewardess of his private jet after her husband died in Branson's service, etc). Eden is the one who constantly misconstrues his actions as having ulterior motives.
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Save the Pearls / int_551d3457	type	Food Pills
Save the Pearls / int_551d3457	comment	Food Pills: The entire population seems to subsist on carbohydrate, protein, and fat pills. No mention is made of vitamin pills, so why all the characters aren't dead of scurvy is anyone's guess.
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Save the Pearls / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
Save the Pearls / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Being the main heroine doesn't stop Eden from hating black people.
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Save the Pearls / int_5552929	type	Albinos Are Freaks
Save the Pearls / int_5552929	comment	Albinos Are Freaks: "Cottons" (the term for albinos) are threatened with being killed on sight in this dystopian future.
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Save the Pearls / int_5ec15a79	type	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
Save the Pearls / int_5ec15a79	comment	The series is ostensibly a fable about the foolishness of racism, set in a world where an environmental catastrophe has left melanin content as a prized thing, with blacks on top and whites on the bottom, with an interracial romance to drive home the point. What it is, however, is a series where white people are called "Pearls" and blacks are called "Coals," the white female lead starts off severely uncomfortable around black people (to the point of using slurs like "haughty Coal" in inner monologue), white people often wear blackface to "pass," the white lead is threatened with rape at the hands of a giant black man, and the love story is described as a "Beauty and the Beast" fable where the black love interest literally turns into a beast thanks to genetic engineering.
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Save the Pearls / int_6849cc47	type	Where da White Women At?
Save the Pearls / int_6849cc47	comment	Where da White Women At?: Inverted. "Pearls" are the ones chasing "Coals" to marry, and apparently, they're kicked out of society if they are not "mated" by 18. Strangely, it's never really explained why the white people don't just reproduce with each other or why they're ejected at 18 if they're not married. It creates strange contradictions like Eden calling for Pearl equality and independence but practically throwing up at the idea of mating with one of her own.
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Save the Pearls / int_7582930a	type	Hollywood Science
Save the Pearls / int_7582930a	comment	Hollywood Science: The premise relies heavily upon a poor understanding of how things like solar radiation, and gene splicing work.
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Save the Pearls / int_7fae036b	type	Minstrel Shows
Save the Pearls / int_7fae036b	comment	Minstrel Shows: They exist in this universe, but since whites are the ones who get discriminated against, the performers wear whiteface and act as racist parodies of white people.
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Save the Pearls / int_9d94dcfd	type	Persecution Flip
Save the Pearls / int_9d94dcfd	comment	Persecution Flip: In the post-apocalyptic future presented in the books, the white minority ("Pearls") are oppressed by the black majority ("Coals") after ozone depletion kills off people with low melanin. The pearls have to wear blackface in public. The author, incidentally, is white.
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Save the Pearls / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Save the Pearls / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: The Huaorani tribe is shown worshiping warped versions of the Aztec gods (see Sadly Mythtaken below), when in real life the Huaorani practiced shamanism and animism rather than worshiping specific deities. Also, it's highly unlikely that an Ecuadorian tribe is going to be worshiping gods from an ancient Mexican and Central American nation.
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Save the Pearls / int_bca8900a	type	Government Drug Enforcement
Save the Pearls / int_bca8900a	comment	Government Drug Enforcement: Everyone has a ration of "oxy" (oxycontin) that they take via "oxy-caps", helmets that insert a needle into a shunt on the back of their necks. Where all the poppies used to make the oxy come from is not discussed, nor how an entire society of opioid addicts manages to operate.
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Save the Pearls / int_bed53353	type	Mate or Die
Save the Pearls / int_bed53353	comment	Mate or Die: Women who have not found a mate by the time they turn 18 are cut off from all supplies. (Men have until they turn 24.)
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Save the Pearls / int_d6b5e3fc	type	Latino Is Brown
Save the Pearls / int_d6b5e3fc	comment	Latino Is Brown: Latinos are referred to as "Tiger's Eyes" and it's abundantly clear that the author thinks that all Latinos constitute a single race. In reality, Latinos come in many different phenotypes, and many would be too light or too dark for such a name to make sense.
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Save the Pearls / int_e378370c	type	But Not Too White
Save the Pearls / int_e378370c	comment	But Not Too White: It's far in the future, blacks are on top culturally, whites are on the bottom, and as a result, the standards of beauty lean black.
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Save the Pearls / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Save the Pearls / int_e796ce97	comment	Blackface: Because of the prejudice against them, the Pearls resort to wearing blackface in public in order to try and fit in. At one point, the reader is told about a minstrel show wherein the performers wear "white face".
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Save the Pearls / int_efd11a7d	type	A Dog Named "Cat"
Save the Pearls / int_efd11a7d	comment	A Dog Named "Cat": Bramford is hailed by an Ecuadorian tribe of Native Americans as a jaguar god called "El Tigre", which is Spanish for "the tiger".
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