Racial Discrimination, Native North American Peoples - Law, Politics, & Government, Native North American Peoples - General & Miscellaneous, Civil Rights - General, United States - Ethnic & Race Relations, 19th Century US Westward Migration & Development
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Overview
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 Philippines and Vietnam. He cites parallels between the slaughter of bison on the Great Plains and the defoliation of Vietnam and notes similarities in the language of aggression used in the American West, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia.Drinnon examines the eerie similarities of attitudes and actions on the part of three centuries of Americans.
Book Details
Published
April 1, 1990
Publisher
New York : Schocken Books, c1990.
Pages
573
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780805209785