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Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Dropout Culture
by
Ron Sakolsky ,
Ron Sakolsky
History. Cultural Studies. America was founded as a land of drop-outs, and almost immediately it began to produce its own crop of dissidents - visionaries, utopians, Maroons (escaped slaves), white and black Indians, sailors and buccaneers, tax rebels, angry women, crank reformers, tri-racial isolate communities - all on the lam from Babylon, from control. In this book the...more
Paperback, 382 pages
Published
December 1st 1994
by Autonomedia
(first published June 9th 1994)
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Interesting look at the Hx of social experiments (either structured or organic) in America. Drop out culture, those that went West to get away rather than to arrive somewhere, pirates.
A reminder that American Hx isn't all about the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, or it's New Imperialism...scratch the surface and you'll be following the trail that leads away from Roanoke.
A reminder that American Hx isn't all about the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, or it's New Imperialism...scratch the surface and you'll be following the trail that leads away from Roanoke.
An interesting if somewhat uneven collection of essays on the "dropout" history of America. The essays are narrowly focused on particular groups or movements (maroons, Ishmaels) and pre-suppose a general historical knowledge of anti-colonial or anti-dominant culture movements. For the later, I'd recommend Linebaugh and Rediker's The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic..
Sarah Keliher
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people who don't think howard zinn goes far enough
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Gone to Croatan is the perfect antidote for those days on which you find yourself staring out the window, thinking about history and how it seems to be just an unending cycle of people screwing each other over, and that maybe the cockroaches will make a better go of things after we've gone.
It will remind you that the history of America, from the beginning, has also been a history of resistance, interdependence, and cooperation, full of people who dared to live and love in defiance of ...more
It will remind you that the history of America, from the beginning, has also been a history of resistance, interdependence, and cooperation, full of people who dared to live and love in defiance of ...more
Victor
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Precursors to hippies and drop-out culture in North America. Puritans who left to live among the Native Americans due to the oppressive puritanical culture; Spaniards who left the Conquistadors to live among the Mayans, etc.
This was okay. I always loose focus in books that are collected short essays like this. Some of them were good, others were really boring or just plain poorly written. If you want to get a sense of the history of drop outs and resistant cultures in North America this is perhaps worth skimming for the references to more thorough works on those groups/topics.
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anarchists, folks interested in race and early american history
I really enjoyed reading this book a little bit at a time - picking it up and reading a chapter here and another there, and so I really appreciated the non-linear layout of it. I also really loved hearing the stories of all the different kinds of people banning together to resist the encroaching world of laws and restraints and work. I feel like the sort of ethnic/race history talked about in this book is sorely missing from a lot of radicals' critiques.
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The inertia of nomadic journey and autonomy are very valid feelings for american drop-outs. A practical example of Burroughs sentiment about horribly maimed souls of Nagasaki and Hiroshima returning to endanger national security (as American youth).
Artnoose Noose
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I read one of the essays, about the Ishmaelites. It was so interesting that I want to read the rest of the book.
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An homage to dropout culture in North America.
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