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Child was a woman ahead of her time and a damn good short story writer, What tragic love fall upon women from the same lineage, This story started the rather abysmal "TragicMulatto" subgenre, in which a person of mixed race is presented in a tragedy where they display no agency and are essentially a helpless damsel in distress.
Such is the case in this story, in which said mixedrace protagonist is put through a depressing plot in which they display no agency over their fate, and are most definitely a damsel in distress.
It doesn't really present any concrete philosophical insight about racism, it just simply presents a vaguely sad tropey narrative about a black person's terrible life,
This is the exact problem with stories about racism being written by a white author who has definitely never experienced racism, as it just comes across as really insincere and inauthentic.
These characters operate like cardboard cutouts, just standing
there and crying oncue, or looking dramatically into the moonlight oncue, lacking any defined reality, That problem definitely comes from the fact the author is totally ignorant to the experiences of mixedrace people, since she herself is not mixedrace, and therefore has absolutely no frameofreference.
Having no reality to draw from, she just proceeds to make sht up, which absolutely doesn't reflect the mixedrace experience in the United States at all,
If you want a more truetolife version of mixedrace experiences, here are some works to check out:
Caucasia
Children of Perdition
Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience
Everything I Never Told You
Notice how all these great books are by mixedrace authors, funny what happens when you let people tell their own stories.
Emotional look at this beautiful ethic group and the unfair challenges of being a woman of color, The quadroons was a mother and daughter's tragic story, . . every word will hold you until the end! I had to read this for one of my classes and it was tragically beautiful, The story was tragic, yet the writing was gorgeous, It will be a story that I think about for a long time to come, i DEMAND somebody to discover an unpublished prequel of just Edward and Rosalies love story somewhere in Lydia Maria Childs long lost archives She wrote abt love SOO BEAUTIFULLY A strange story of love and tragedy, history and slavery.
Loved the writer's writing style by the way, Lydia Maria Childwas an activist and writer of novels, pamphlets, and works for children, She often used her writing to advocate for slaves, women, and Native Americans, Lydia Maria Child was born in Medford, Massachusetts, where her grandfathers house, which she celebrates in her poem, still stands, .