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I've read that first chapter and I'm shocked you say it's not racist and that if you think it is, you don't get irony. I really don't think you've read it. The narrator dreams about the good old days when her skin colour was the ideal and she would have been on the cover of magazines. That awful "coal" term is used as a slur against the supposedly privileged class.
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and that's somehow a bad thing for a book where racism is at the core to have a racist narrator? Narrators are not always the true feelings of the author, wasn't there a 'who done it' book where the narrator did it?
but I'll reserve any strong opinion one way or the other as unlike the person I quoted, I've not read any of the book and probably won't considering the size of my reading list and taste in genres :P I might very well be just as appalled if I actually read it.