I would say this misses a couple important elements of the book. For one, the home April and Cheryl grew up is was genuinely unfit and the majority of the foster families that the girls found themselves in (Dions, Steindalls etc) were genuinely good places, so I wouldn't say the message is that they took the sisters away and put them in white household bc racism but in actuality they were worse off because of it, but more that harm from racism can largely be the result of a few bad apples or the overlooking or dismissing of concerns because of race (native girl syndrome). Additionally, the idea that Cheryl remained proud of her heritage and April fell to idolizing white people is also missing the point. April and Cheryl are mixed, and both clung to and idolized the side of their identity they most identified with to a detrimental extent. The reason Cheryl started drinking and went on this downward spiral is because she has this vision of her family as proud Metis people and when she met them and found them to be alcoholics and describes them as "gutter creatures" it shatters her world. Similarly April doesn't have a terrible relationship with bob or life with his family, but the upper class white life she lives just fails the meet the expectations of her childhood dreams of what it would be like, and she was thus unable to find belonging, only truly feeling at peace when she recognizes her Metis heritage and adopts Henry. In search of April Raintree isn't about finding or accepting your marginilized identity, as Cheryl does that do her great detriment, but coming to accept and be proud of all the parts of who you are, which is what April does at the end of the novel.
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I would say this misses a couple important elements of the book. For one, the home April and Cheryl grew up is was genuinely unfit and the majority of the foster families that the girls found themselves in (Dions, Steindalls etc) were genuinely good places, so I wouldn't say the message is that they took the sisters away and put them in white household bc racism but in actuality they were worse off because of it, but more that harm from racism can largely be the result of a few bad apples or the overlooking or dismissing of concerns because of race (native girl syndrome). Additionally, the idea that Cheryl remained proud of her heritage and April fell to idolizing white people is also missing the point. April and Cheryl are mixed, and both clung to and idolized the side of their identity they most identified with to a detrimental extent. The reason Cheryl started drinking and went on this downward spiral is because she has this vision of her family as proud Metis people and when she met them and found them to be alcoholics and describes them as "gutter creatures" it shatters her world. Similarly April doesn't have a terrible relationship with bob or life with his family, but the upper class white life she lives just fails the meet the expectations of her childhood dreams of what it would be like, and she was thus unable to find belonging, only truly feeling at peace when she recognizes her Metis heritage and adopts Henry. In search of April Raintree isn't about finding or accepting your marginilized identity, as Cheryl does that do her great detriment, but coming to accept and be proud of all the parts of who you are, which is what April does at the end of the novel.
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