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Race and class in the United States: J. Sakai and the politics of revolution
Greene, Doug http://links.org.au/node/4765
Publisher: Links
Date Written: 22/07/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
Doug Greene offers a critique of J. Sakai's 1989 work, Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat.
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J. Sakai's 1989 work, Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat is an influential work among many Maoists and Third Worldists, that covers the broad sweep of US history from the 1600s to the 1980s.
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However, the book is marred by its cherry-picking of data, poor methodology, multiple claims advanced without foundation, its unclear use of class, and the fact that ultimately it advances politically defeatist conclusions.
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