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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8501653" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>The racism in Herbert West is explicit and in the open on the surface as you read it. I expect most people reading it will recognize it.</p><p></p><p>In Shadow Over Innsmouth there is a pact involving breeding with inhuman monsters leading to physical and mental changes that manifest later in life in the human looking child.</p><p></p><p>There is no obvious surface connection of Deep Ones to Black people that I remember but it was years ago that I read it.</p><p></p><p>Many readers do not have a fear of miscegenation. Or see miscegenation as a top of mind theme.</p><p></p><p>There are a bunch of other themes the situation can be viewed as that fit better on the surface and are closer to mind to most readers today.</p><p></p><p>It is primarily by knowing the author and knowing he has a fear of miscegenation and has written other racist things that this possible lens comes closer to the surface.</p><p></p><p>Other Lovecraft stories seem to have no racial element at all. The Color Out of Space comes to mind as a contained story with no surface or underlying hook for racism that I recall.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I think that would depend heavily on the specific story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8501653, member: 2209"] The racism in Herbert West is explicit and in the open on the surface as you read it. I expect most people reading it will recognize it. In Shadow Over Innsmouth there is a pact involving breeding with inhuman monsters leading to physical and mental changes that manifest later in life in the human looking child. There is no obvious surface connection of Deep Ones to Black people that I remember but it was years ago that I read it. Many readers do not have a fear of miscegenation. Or see miscegenation as a top of mind theme. There are a bunch of other themes the situation can be viewed as that fit better on the surface and are closer to mind to most readers today. It is primarily by knowing the author and knowing he has a fear of miscegenation and has written other racist things that this possible lens comes closer to the surface. Other Lovecraft stories seem to have no racial element at all. The Color Out of Space comes to mind as a contained story with no surface or underlying hook for racism that I recall. I think that would depend heavily on the specific story. [/QUOTE]
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