This chapter/ending was better than the wrap up before. Believable and not fully resolved. I think this would be a difficult book for a child to understand why Cecile would not want her children, maybe more difficult than the racial issues because it connects to them personally. Maybe that’s why race is so difficult to deal with. Unless you have a non-dominant ethnicity, you don’t learn about your ethnicity so you don’t see that you have it and so can something that you don’t have be valuable? Colour blindness also seems to suggest that if we just get rid of ethnicity everything will be fine but that doesn’t say anything about privilege and power and the little racisms encountered every day.
On a side note, the acknowledgments are insufficient as an author’s note to give more information about the story. This book really needs a teacher and a good teacher to get at all the meaty stuff about power and race and color and freedom.
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