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Cargando... 500 Years of Indigenous Resistancepor Gord Hill, Solidarity Collective, Owusu Yakubu
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I think this is absolutely vital reading for every person living on Turtle Island (the Americas). I think an imperative component of stopping the continuing process of colonization is knowing the true history of these lands, as recorded and experienced by the indigenous peoples who lived here time immemorial. This is a book I read and re-read, and recommend to everyone who is at all interested in any form of social justice or radical politics. A must read!
Much more than a history of European colonisation of the Americas. In this slim volume, Gord Hill chronicles the resistance by Indigenous peoples, which limited and shaped the forms and extent of colonialism. This history encompasses North and South America, the development of nation-states, and the resurgence of Indigenous resistance in the post-WWII era. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This book has great value as an overview of the treatment of Indigenous people in North and South America from the 15th to the 20th century, should be used in schools to supplement or replace the mythologising chapter or two given by typical American history textbooks to early European and Native American relations, and would make great starter material in educational environments which allow for freer ability to further investigate the subject matter (homeschools, un-schools, etc). It should also be read by anyone who hasn't yet developed a puking response to Columbus Day celebrations and oil paintings of noble explorers/traders/colonisers doing innocent, honest business with exotic, half-naked men with tanned skin, hot, chiseled bods, and a feather in their hair.
I guess I'm just frustrated that this material is still not common knowledge. I wanted more (way more) exposition of Indigenous resistance, and less cataloging of colonialist, capitalist European hegemony-- a subject with which I am already thoroughly (and despairingly) familiar. I do wonder if the lack of information and detail (especially prior to the 1970's) is the result of historical accounts of resistance movements being both unrecorded by those doing the resisting, and obscured, physically destroyed, revised (destroyed), ignored (destroyed) by those--from early conquerers to present-day journalists and authors of school history textbooks-- doing the squashing. If this is the case, I wish the author would have said a little something about that. ( )