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DNF'd around 28% because the racism became too hard to stomach.
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I initially approached this book with a healthy level of caution, knowing it was written by a white guy in 1914, but even that wasn't enough for me to find anything redeemable. Even with a book as racist as Uncle Remus, you can easily skip the titular Remus scenes and just read the stories (and pretend, with varying degrees of success, that the awful pidgin speech is just a Southern dialect). With this, the racism was heavily sprinkled throughout and virtually unavoidable. Spence kept interrupting his own narration with comments on how "primitive" these religions are, how the "savage man" doesn't have the cognition to tell the difference between living things and non-living things, about how "the red man" has no sense of good or evil, etc.

I would grudge this a two-star rating if this was one of a few Native American mythology collections, but there are more and better ones out there. Read those instead. /list/show/1...