In chapter “ Daddy” summarize “daddy’s” approach to race

Do you mean Ruth's father? Ruth was a rebellious girl who hated her father, and since her father hated blacks - and especially black men - it made sense for her to fall in love with a black man. In those days, she explains, interracial relationships were intensely dangerous, as black men were hanged in the South for even looking at a white woman.

Hunter was He was half Native-American, and half black. He really did not see race or even paternity as an issue. He supported the family but didn't live with them.