Does Eudora Welty write about issues of race?

For all her strengths, Eudora Welty does not write much about the social and political forces that were changing the world around her in the South in the 30s and 40s - at least as evidenced from the first 100 pp or so of her "Collected Stories" - interesting in that the last two stories in the collection, pretty often anthologized but not included in any of her books of stories - are on overt political/topical themes. It will be interesting, reading through the Collected, to see how she evolves toward that more engaged stance. But from the first stories, the ones in Curtain of Green, the South/Mississippi seems frozen in time, relations among the races and classes quit separate and distinct, the world just sleepily edging along. The title story does involve some kind of bonding between an elderly white woman and her black gardener/helper, but the story may as well have been written/set in 1840. Welty is incisive and witty, but not an "engaged" writer. It's interesting to note that the most nearly political story in the collection, so far, involves a married couple, guy out of work and despondent, living in New York - took a while for me even to figure that out, it was such a surprise - and the wife asks the husband if he'd gone to "the demonstration" - so Welty can deal with forces of social change, with the issue of unemployment and despair - but not on her home ground, which, as least to that point in her writing life, she sees as a world almost outside of time, slow and rich and eternal like the Mississippi.