Scope and arrangement
The Octavia Butler papers contain an unpublished interview and a one page summary of the interview, copies of articles by Octavia Butler: (1)"The Lost Races of Science Fiction", Transmission, Summer 1980 and (2) "Discovery, Creation, and Craft", Washington Post, 1983 May 22. Also includes correspondence between Ernest Blackwell (former staff member at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture), Octavia Butler, and Felicia Eth (Butler's agent), and Ernest Blackwell's handwritten notes on novels with racial conflict as a main theme, as well as racism and racial stereotypes in science fiction writing.
Arrangement
Items are arranged chronologically.