18. In Farnham's Freehold, it's not just the drug-dealing, castrating, white-women raping, black cannibals that's the problem.
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19. A huge problem in Farnham's Freehold is the supposed "good Negro" -- Farnham's houseboy Joe.
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20. Joe is a cipher designed to serve Heinlein's plot points. Initially helpful, sexless, deferential ("yes, boss") who turns traitor.
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21. The main white characters from the present are disgusted by future cannibal society but Joe takes to it like a duck in water. A problem
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22. There's a racial dimension to I Will Fear No Evil (1970) that isn't often considered.
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23. In I Will Fear No Evil a 94-year-old billionaire first has his brain implanted in the body of a 28-year-old black woman.
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24. Through sci-fi mumbo-jumbo the old white billionaire & young black woman end up sharing the body.
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25. What's interesting about "Fear No Evil" is the way it enacts Heinlein's desire to imaginatively inhabit black female body.
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26. "Fear No Evil" can be seen a something creepy (it is) but also a Heinlein trying (unsuccessfully) to reach out to different race/gender.
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27. More broadly, Heinlein pushed himself to imagine a post-racial future but couldn't quite do it b/c of his own limits.
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28. Friday (1982) is interesting as late-period Heinlein meditation on race. He self-critiques earlier eugenic ideas.
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29. What's also good in Friday is he gets at how racism creates self-doubt & insecurity in racialized people. Surprisingly insightful.
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30. A properly intersectional analysis would link Heinlein on race with Heinlein on gender.
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