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It doesn't only apply to SF and fantasy, of course. One of my favourite authors is Sir Henry Rider Haggard, who wrote over 60 novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly of African adventure. Many of these would be considered shockingly racist by modern standards, which is ironic, considering that Rider Haggard was condemned by the press in his own lifetime for his shockingly "liberal" attitudes in advocating that African nations should be self-governing rather than under the (commonly regarded at the time) "benevolent" yoke of European colonial rule. Sometimes you just can't win either way.
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