Thomas seemed to struggle with his religion, as well, and creates a mashup of his mother’s evangelical Christianity and his father’s Native American spiritual religion that shows itself through his “Oakland-spun Christian evangelical end-of-the-world spirituality” (222). He has a white mother and a “noticeably Indian dad” (216).
As the last character we were introduced to in the novel, Thomas Frank didn’t play a large role, but he also had intersecting identities that brought diversity to the cast of the book. Reply DeleteĪnother character that stuck out to me was Thomas Frank. I think what you are describing Orange as having done in this book, showing both sides of that story, is an effective way to combat such generalized and ultimately toxic ways of thinking. I feel that this idea is something that white society often likes to take away from people of color, or at least relegate it to the background white leftists (the supposedly politically correct, sensitive, and culturally informed political group) are most guilty of this phenomenon, being so zealous in their celebration of minority culture that they forget that a "minority" is just a status indicator and not an identity. Minorities aren't totally defined by their minority status, or even by their culture they are their own person as well with their own identity outside of and beyond their culture. I think there is something very interesting being said about the minority identity as well through this theme of intersectionality and diversity: it does not come in one color. This is very true and relatively refreshing-maybe not in the sense that nobody has done this anymore, but in the sense that we in the Indiana midwest don't get to hear about it often.
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