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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31. With gender, Heinlein was trying to imagine a post-gender, liberated future but it often devolved into patriarchal sex fantasies.
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32. Heinlein's aliens are a prime example of his conflicting anti-racism & xenophobia.
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33. On the one hand, the wise Martians (many books); on other hand slugs of Puppet Masters & Bugs of Starship Troopers.
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@brianmooredraws I read Double Star as Heinlein grappling with his own conflicted emotions.
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