Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire-building

Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire-building
ISBN-10
080612928X
ISBN-13
9780806129280
Series
Facing West
Category
Social Science
Pages
572
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Author
Richard Drinnon

Description

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 in the American West, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia.

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