However, these novels' explicit acknowledgment of their characters' social and ethnic backgrounds meant that they were not considered "raceless" in the old-fashioned sense.
然而，这些小说明确承认了人物的社会和种族背景，这意味着他们不被认为是传统意义上的“无种族”。
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Either the novel with White ethnic main characters or the "raceless" novel appears, at least as an experiment, in the careers of the best-known expatriate African American writers.