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Showing posts with label Howard Zinn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Howard Zinn. Show all posts
Monday, August 13, 2012
Howard Zinn On The Meaning Of Historical Research
My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been.
The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, most often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex.
And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners. ~~Howard Zinn, Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress [@ History Is A Weapon] or PDF [HERE]
Saturday, November 7, 2009
A recommended reading list for the 'too cool', the 'tragically hip' and the 'historically blank'
Containing the full text of such classics as:
The American Revolution: Pages From a Negro Worker's Notebook by James Boggs
Die Nigger Die: A Political Autobiography by H. Rap Brown
From The Narrative Of The Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
From A People's History of The United States by Howard Zinn
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson
From Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
From The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Black History by Gil Scott-Heron
Malcolm X on Afro-American History
Worse Than Slavery by David M. Oshinsky
An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis by James Baldwin
Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation by Angela Y. Davis
The Convict Lease System by Frederick Douglass
Slavery and Prison — Understanding the Connections by Kim Gilmore
Lynch Law By Ida B. Wells
The Demand For Order And The Birth Of Modern Policing by Kristian Williams
Social Insecurity: The Transformation of American Criminal Justice, 1965-2000 by Anthony Platt
Remembering the Real Dragon: An Interview with George Jackson, An interview by Karen Wald
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson NEW
Prison Nation by Sasha Abramsky
...and more...
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