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ivan
Mar 14, 2008
ivan rated it: 5 of 5 stars

Read in November, 2005
Possibly the most important political science book I've read in the last five years. Drawing on ideas of race advanced by Noel Ignatiev ("Race Traitor") and David Roediger ("The Wages of Whiteness"), Olson provides a compelling argument for the idea that the United States was not founded upon an idea of an ever-expanding democracy, but firmly on white-supremacist, racist democracy that must be uprooted if any true democratic ideals are to be reached.

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Dominic
Sep 28, 2009
Dominic rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Not bad. But really lacks in practical examples.
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melissa bock
May 01, 2008
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