SLSL 'Low-lands' racism?

[The Great Quail]

Jbor again:

> But the issue is more than just the representation of the Negro in the
> story. The centre of gravity in 'Low-lands' is white middle-class Flange.
> All the other characters (apart from Bodine, who, quirky though he is, is
> supposed to be a manifestation of "normal" - i.e. white middle-class -
> wackiness), including Nerissa, are like aliens. They're either crazed or
> depraved or comic buffoons or inscrutably exotic - archetypally 'Other' in
> Foucault's terms. One of the things which Pynchon uses to underwrite their
> strangeness, or alterity, is ethnicity.

Oh, yeah -- excellent point!

--Quail