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

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Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building - Drinnon, Richard, Dr., PH.D
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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 in the American West, the ...

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Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building 1997, University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-13: 9780806129280

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Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building 1980, University of Minnesota Press

ISBN-13: 9780816609789

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