Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building

by Richard Drinnon

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American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of "winning" the West, Drinnon links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship from the Pequot War in New England, through American expansion westward to the Pacific, and beyond to the Phillippines and Vietnam. He cites parrallels between the slaughter of bison on the Great Plains and the defoliation of Vietnam and notes similarities in the language of aggression used show more in the American West, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia. show less

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not very readable, and pretty dated at this point. Modern works such as the indigenous people’s history of the United States and other BLM-informed decolonization focused works probably suit the modern reader a bit better, but damn if this thing doesn’t have the RESEARCH. This is a great resource for people that don’t mind using discipline to slog through history books. I learned a huge amount, and have nothign but respect for Drinnon’s pathbreaking work. There’s a reason this book is cited in all the more modern and readable attempts at the topic!
A long time ago, it was my sommeone among my good-old, Leftist comrades in the Jam Rag community that recommended this American history with perceptive over of the unrecognized "American Empire" as crest of a wave of civilizing, wealth-gathering force that moved from London to New York then rough shod over the Plains and out across the Pacific into Philipines etc. and apparently will crest again in Shanghai...

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Richard Drinnon is Professor Emeritus of History at Bucknell University

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Nonfiction, Anthropology, History, General Nonfiction
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305.8Society, government, & cultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologySocial group - Age, Gender, EthnicityEthnic and national groups
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E98 .P99 .D74History of the United StatesAmericaIndians of North America
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