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The kind of book you can't put down once you start.
Like Howard Zinn's A People's History of the US, which this title riffs on, we can a new look at US history. Zinn's focus was wider, but it tended to all be grounded in economics and the power dynamics created by capitalism. Dunbar-Ortiz focus is tighter and narrower, which allows her to dive deeper into the multiple genocides indigenous people have suffered under European and then US colonialism.
Like Zinn's book, she assumes the reader is fami ...more
Like Howard Zinn's A People's History of the US, which this title riffs on, we can a new look at US history. Zinn's focus was wider, but it tended to all be grounded in economics and the power dynamics created by capitalism. Dunbar-Ortiz focus is tighter and narrower, which allows her to dive deeper into the multiple genocides indigenous people have suffered under European and then US colonialism.
Like Zinn's book, she assumes the reader is fami ...more
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