Re: (Worst) Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein

In article <v7pcud$nve$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

In article <v7p2g7$1bk11$1@dont-email.me>,
Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

On 23/07/2024 08.04, James Nicoll wrote:

Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
 
Can atomic Commiegeddon and the end of the world distract comely young
Barbara from the allure of irresistibly middle-aged Hugh Farnham's
interminable lectures? And what of the Race Question?
 
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/sic-transit-gloria-mundi

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With respect to _Tunnel in the Sky_ (no, I won't use the initialism),
Rod Walker describes one gal as having Zulu ancestry, and at a
different point, looking a lot like his sister.
>
(This is from memory; I haven't read it since 2006.)
>

That could might mean Rod and his sister are black but it might not.
 

Their father was not happy that Rod was friends with that girl (which
doesn't mean that Rod wasn't black, but I suspect that she was
significantly darker than Rod).

However, TitS does have interacial marriage out the wazoo, which was
pretty unusual for a kids book in the 1950s.

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