@apprenticeprof, Let’s say you were Laura Ingalls Wilder’s great-great-great-great-granddaughter, you had access to her diaries, the Little House books had not been written, and you were writing them today. How would you handle Ma’s casual racism? Would you handle it like Laura Ingalls Wilder did? Leave out the racism entirely? Leave it in, but make it clear that you the author don’t like it? How should we of today handle this?
How should she, writing then, have handled it? Suppose she loved her mother and wanted to portray her favorably, but didn’t like the racism. What should she have done?