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This might indeed be the most controversial books written by Fleming as he was bend on creating a coloured criminal mastermind because as he saw that the coloured society was bound to create great people so the same could be said for the underworld. Fleming sketched a somewhat questionable mood around this idea, even if it was perhaps not quite his idea to be racist at all. It has been the last 20 years that the PC thinking have made us look skeptical towards the writing of before and became jud
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Bond's latest mission takes him to Harlem, Tampa, and Jamaica, and he trades the casual sexism of Casino Royale for casual racism and caricatures of the "negro race".
It's got it all: referring to Black women as "negress". Trying to mimic the Black voice / slang. Talk about the "negro race" as if it was one unified body. "The sixth sense of negroes". "Negroids". Voodoo and Juju. It's got a lot of elements of a Blaxploitation film.
Having said all that, this book (unlike Casino Royale) is where we ...more
It's got it all: referring to Black women as "negress". Trying to mimic the Black voice / slang. Talk about the "negro race" as if it was one unified body. "The sixth sense of negroes". "Negroids". Voodoo and Juju. It's got a lot of elements of a Blaxploitation film.
Having said all that, this book (unlike Casino Royale) is where we ...more
Sep 21, 2012
Steve Goble
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