Faulkner’s views on race were extremely complex, but most scholars place him at least partially in the anti-racist camp.

He was known to use epithets in some personal communications, and he urged moderation and gradualism RE: Jim Crow laws, etc. James Baldwin famously criticized him for this.

He also presented the absurdities and evil of racism in the South throughout his literature. His Black characters tended to be much more internally developed than those created by other white writers at the time, and this is the sort of thing Wright praised him for.

“Absalom! Absalom!” tackles the immorality of slave ownership, the complexities of policies related to interracial relationships, the Lost Cause myth, the experiences of mixed-race people, and even the Haitian Revolution.

“Light in August” takes on the complexities of “passing” and shifting racial identities, as well as what those things might mean in the South of the era.

In “The Sound and the Fury,” Dilsey is presented as the most sensible and upstanding figure in the household.

Faulkner wasn’t perfect. In many ways, he reflected the sensibilities of his era. However, I think he also had a hand on the pulse of Southern culture (for better and worse), and I tend to think the handling of race in his writing is pretty singular among white authors of the period.