re: #234 wheat-dogg

Good teachers can use uncomplimentary portrayals of characters in stories as teaching moments. Huckleberry Finn still catches flak for the Jim character, though Twain in fact was trying to show how two people of different races could still become friends. And the n* word was part of the language back then.

OTOH using the Ingalls books in a classroom in which there were Native American or First Nation students could be problematic.

Mark Twain used the N-word everywhere in his books because hey, it was the 1880’s! Huckleberry Finn was actually against racism and slavery. Also Puddinhead Wilson is a very underrated Twain book. It would make a very unsatisfying movie, because all the “Black” characters in the book are white! (They are considered “Black” because of the “One Drop” rule of the time.)