by Alexandre Dumas
I dunno. This book is such a complicated morass of internalized racism, straight up racism, and deep insights on racism. I read this book because I've been a long time fan of Dumas, having read Three Musketeers when I was but a tot and being a huge fan of Count of Monte Cristo when I got older. One ...
This is a really complicated, moment-in-history (and moment in an individual author's understanding) look at race in French/English sociey in a colony (Mauritius, although it's pretty generic -- Dumas had never been there). It's very messy. Georges is a superior human being, a mulatto who is of su...
Dumas' only book that deals with issues of race in a straightforward, and at the time somewhat unprecedented, way. I talk a bit about it here http://abouttocharge.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/the-planter-of-the-isle-of-france/ but plan to do a more in-depth review in the future, when I finally get this ...
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