9/25 There are Racial Undertones in Dawn

I noticed that Lillith is paired with other persons of color. Joe is Asian. The little boy who is put in her isolated room is Indian. The partner that the Oankali pick out for her is African American. I presume this is so Lillith feels a sense of comfort in being around another “person of color.” This is interesting because the Oankali are interested in hybridity and mixing breeds; they also want to disintegrate those racial barriers that the world encompasses and I assume that is why they awakened a black woman first versus a white individual. I look at this and see it as a critique about slavery in America and all over the world; it makes me like the Oankali and appreciate that they do not want racism in the new world they plan to create.