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Facing west : the metaphysics of Indian-hating and empire building / by Richard Drinnon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drinnon, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Public opinion.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Civil rights.
- Race discrimination--United States.
- Race discrimination.
- United States.
- United States--Territorial expansion.
- Territorial expansion.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 571 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1980]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 469-552.
- ISBN:
- 0816609780 :
- OCLC:
- 5992449
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