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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern

J. Sakai

2014·1735 pages

"Originally published unter the title " 'Mythology of the white proletariat: a short course in understanding Babylon' in 1983."--Title page verso.

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Author’s Note Introduction I. The Heart of Whiteness 1. The Land is the Basis of Nationhood 2. The Foundations of Settler Life 3. Euro-Amerikan Social Structure II. Struggles & Alliances III. The Contradictions of Nation & Class 1. Crisis Within the Slave System 2. Slavery vs. Settlerism IV. Settler Trade Unionism 1. The Rise of White Labor 2. The Popular Appeal of Genocide 3. White Labor Against the Oppressed 4. The Test of Black Reconstruction 5. The Contradictions of White Labor V. Colonialism, Imperialism & Labor Aristocracy 1. The “Bourgeois Proletariat”2. Settler Opposition to Imperialism 3. The U.S. & South Afrikan Settlerism VI. The U.S. Industrial Proletariat 1. “The Communistic and Revolutionary Races”2. Industrial Unionism VII. Breakthrough of the C.I.O.1. Unification of the White Workers 2. Labor Offensive from Below 3. New Deal & Class Struggle 4. The CIO’s Integration & Imperialist Labor Policy VIII. Imperialist War and the New Amerikan Order 1. GI Joe Defends His Supermarket 2. The Political Character of the War 3. The War on the “Home Front”IX. Neocolonial Pacification in the U.S.1. Forcing “Democracy” on Native Amerikans 2. The Rise of the Afrikan Nation 3. To Disrupt the Nation: Population Regroupment 4. Neocolonialism & Leadership 5. World War II and “Americanization”X. 1950s Repression and the Decline of the Communist Party U.S.A.1. The End of the Euro-Amerikan “Left”2. McCarthyism & Repression 3. The Case of Puerto Rico: Clearing the Ground for Neocolonialism XI. This Great Humanity Has Cried “Enough!”XII. The Global Plantation 1. The Promotion of the Proletariat and Replacement by Third World Labor 2. New Babylon XIII. “Klass, Kulture & Kommunity”XIV. Tactical & Strategic APPENDICES Cash & Genocide: The True Story of Japanese-American Reparations Stolen at Gunpoint: Interview with J. Sakai by Ernesto Aguilar

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