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The notable white people are the Kargish bad guys.

• pmoriarty 5y ago
  True, but their race is barely even noticeable in the book, and they only even appear in maybe the first 20 pages. The book is really not about race, and racial issues are pretty much non-existent in the book.
  • vmilner 5y ago
    Le Guin herself said she didn't make a big thing of it, but that the traditional genre skin-colour stereotypes are deliberately flipped. I certainly didn't notice until it was pointed out to me.