Handmaid's Tale begins in the book by doing away with all black people by calling them the " Children of Ham " who have been relocated to concentration camps in the Midwest, and then proceeds to tell none of their story.
As it is written it is a second wave white feminism story that completely erases black people. Black women are just not good enough to be in Atwood's concern bubble, even though they suffer worse fates than the white characters they get less than a paragraph in the entire book.
Handmaid's Tale begins in the book by doing away with all black people by calling them the " Children of Ham " who have been relocated to concentration camps in the Midwest, and then proceeds to tell none of their story.
As it is written it is a second wave white feminism story that completely erases black people. Black women are just not good enough to be in Atwood's concern bubble, even though they suffer worse fates than the white characters they get less than a paragraph in the entire book.