What is the theme in Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller?

Racism and revolution are central themes in this memoir. Mum and Dad are racist. They simply assume that whites are superior to blacks, and that Europeans had the right to trick Africans out of their land a generation or two ago. They are shocked to lose the revolution in Rhodesia, because they assumed that white Africans are inherently superior and would naturally win. Mum and Dad constantly make disparaging remarks about how lazy black workers are. While Mum shows great compassion for dogs, rabbits, scorpions and other animals, she shows none at all for black Africans.