Actually he asks if Shadow has any n*** blood in him but it's definitely a conversation that implies Shadow looks to be mixed race. (I just pulled out my copy of the book and looked for the conversation).
The other thing I noticed is how the description specifically pointed out what other people looked like. Low-Key's shaved-short orange-blonde hair; Iceman with blue eyes and white-blonde hair; short guy with a port-wine birthmark, pale hands, watery hazel eyes; the guard with sandy blonde hair and a sandy blonde face, Sam Fetisher who was the blackest black man Shadow had ever seen.
If he were white, don't you think the narrative would've said? Instead there's all this ambiguity. I think the ambiguity in and of itself shows that he's not white.
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The other thing I noticed is how the description specifically pointed out what other people looked like. Low-Key's shaved-short orange-blonde hair; Iceman with blue eyes and white-blonde hair; short guy with a port-wine birthmark, pale hands, watery hazel eyes; the guard with sandy blonde hair and a sandy blonde face, Sam Fetisher who was the blackest black man Shadow had ever seen.
If he were white, don't you think the narrative would've said? Instead there's all this ambiguity. I think the ambiguity in and of itself shows that he's not white.