It sucks how minorities are underrepresented in “regular” (for lack of a less biased term) works, so they feel the need to compensate by creating works that highlight said minority, which not only then get sorted into an “ethnic” genre ghetto but also make it even harder to create “regular” works that happen to have minority cast members for fear of them being marginalized as well.
(I worry that might come off as victim-blaming, but if so it’s only because I didn’t express myself well. My intent is to lament the structural problems of the situation, not to suggest that minorities shouldn’t create works that better represent them. If there’s blame to be had here, it lies with white audiences being too quick to ignore “ethnic” works and/or publishers too fearful of such audiences to give minority creators a fair chance.)