Caucasia (19)

In class on Thursday we talked about racial fantasies and Birdie Lee being ambiguous.  My understanding so far of racial fantasies is that it is our perception of a particular race or an idea that we have about a race.  However for Birdie Lee its hard to place racial fantasies too because of her being half black and half white and having many different names.  Birdie Lee also has close relationships with her sister Cole and her mother so far in the book.  However her relationship with her father is strained because of her looking more white like her mother, her father which is black has more of an attraction to Cole because Cole looks more like her father than Birdie does.