The Thirthteenth Child

[belladonnalin]

Sometimes, in conversations about race, I wonder what is going through people's HEADS. I mean, I'm white. I get assloads of white privilege every day and in every way. And I fuck up. TRUST me, I fuck up bad sometimes and I feel like an idiot and people call me on it and I apologize and I try to learn.

And then I see shit like Patricia Wrede's

Comments

[rilee16]

This. Exactly. ::has been rendered invisible by several of the conquering societies, in multiple ways, and hates it::

[secrethappiness]

empty of people but full of dangerous animals, many of them magical. really? ... really? oh good god.

i do have to say that one of the best things about moving out here is that i've learned a lot about native people in the last year. it's really been interesting. admittedly, much of it is in the way of fisheries management but it's still really opened my eyes and taught me a lot of history.

[impertinence]

I was reading about this Friday and it's so epically fucked up. The book would totally be okay had it been written in a cultural vacuum - except, oh wait, those DON'T EXIST. uggggggggh.

[mshcherbatskaya]

I don't know that the book sounds like it ignores or re-writes American history so much as re-encodes it. Take the people who are supposedly more savage and primal, and also more "spiritual" and magical (Medicine Men and Voodoo Priestesses, etc.) and just push the sliders all the way to "+". Primal people/savages = animals; spiritual = magical. There you go, all the American mythos, all the stereotypes, none of the guilt.

[emzebel]

Damn. Just...damn.