This is a very bold thing to declare of an extremely established author.

It’s not even the racial stereotypes of the only two other POC-Black characters-in this book in fact, it’s how RR believes that fatphobia is just as bad as racism. Even with all of that, the biggest problem in this book isn’t even the racism. I’ll link to all the other resources discussing the racism below this post because they do make good points as well. These examples that I will show later on are those that require context and isn’t just something that can be shown through a screenshot of the text. Honestly, focusing on surface-level microaggressions such as the racist caricatures of Park’s eyes or the racist descriptions of Park’s Korean mom dismisses much of the more in-depth racism in the book. However, I’ve kept a cached version of the blog post in question on my blog for y’all to view and enjoy-thank you wayback machine. The PDF for this blog post has been deleted from another website and has since been deleted off of Rainbow’s personal website as well. I could delve deep into why it’s all so problematic and where it stemmed from, but I think I’ll let Rainbow herself speak on the issue. Much of the criticism surrounding this book is either about the obvious: the first name of Park being a Korean surname, or Eleanor’s blatant racism and Park’s internalized racism. I took the L and read Eleanor and Park, knowing that I would come out of it hating RR even more than I already did due to her mediocre writing and quirky protagonists that Tumblr users love. There are many resources online that can give a very detailed breakdown about every single racist microaggression in Eleanor and Park, but none that I’ve seen have addressed the problems that I personally read while preparing my video. Obviously, today, we are going to be talking about E&P. Before that, she was most well-known for her contemporary YA romances, most notably Fangirl and Eleanor and Park.

She’s currently most well-known for her mlm un-sanctioned Harry Potter and Draco Malloy fan fiction that she publishes under the name Carry On and its sequel, Wayward Son. Disclaimer: This is my interpretation of the novel and how I perceived the actions, thoughts, and subtext as they were presented by RR within the narrative.

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