For instance, people who read Kindred often feel they would have behaved with much more anger and aggression than my character did. But all that really means is that they would have been killed. And sometimes discussing Kindred after they've read it makes them think more about what conditions were really like and what was really possible. In your books, your characters are dominantly African-American and female, but they move about the fictional world as if there are no racial or gender stresses. No, I just think the stereotyping will change.
Human beings tend to make differences among themselves.
Even when there are no differences we make differences. Well, I really have been trying to do something similar in a lot of my work. I've been trying to fix the world. I began by trying to do it with people who had different parapsychological abilities, and then I began doing it by altering our biology. And finally, I did it by having us simply work with what we've got.