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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
The ingrained casual misogyny and racism of the Queen debut was a bit of a surprise though. I knew that a book written in the late 1920s would be different in that regard, but to have lengthy passages extolling the way their POC houseboy idolised his massa while repeatedly comparing him physically to a monkey was still hard to stomach.
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I’m starting one of the Freeman collections (
John Thorndyke’s Cases) and right away I get this in the intro:
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The Anthropologist at Large includes a mini-lecture on the different physical features of various racial types, which may cause the modern reader some discomfort; The Moabite Cipher also makes reference to other cultures, such as the “beastly Russians”. However, bearing in mind the age in which the stories were written and the eugenist interests of Freeman, they hardly come as a surprise and must be taken in their historical and biographical context.
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The stories were published in 1909, according to the intro. Looks like I’ve been warned.