Although people still have a hard time getting used to that – it isn't race or sex that's the taboo subject in this culture, but class. And what was so "new" about it was that it wasn't "inspiring" propaganda, but took up the experience of colonial workers to question how class really worked. JS: Settlers completely came about by accident, not design. How did this book come about, and what was so new about its way of looking at things? Despite this limitation there are numerous interesting and important points so we reproduce it for reference.ĮC: In the early eighties you wrote Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat, a book which had a major impact on many North American anti-imperialists. The author is from a Maoist background, which is a political tendency that libcom generally disagrees with.
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Holiday Wishes & I’m Just Wild about Harry! I am republishing it nevertheless, lest we forget those among us who are humble and so so brave. I wrote this piece last year when I first made Harry’s “acquaintance.” It seems a bit naive now that I know more about him. It is presumptuous of me, but I do think that’s on track. I think that would be what Harry would want most of all. He is a remarkable person and I hope and I pray that I, and others, take up the baton and continue his work. His story is powerful: poverty, starvation, war, finding love, children, losing his love and dedicating his life to helping those who have no representation, no one to advocate for them. Fearless and outspoken, he voiced his opinions and took on his detractors. Real followers who too are dedicated to righting the wrongs of this world. Over the year, on Twitter, we had a few sweet exchanges, despite the fact that he has hundreds of thousands of followers. 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It might also bring to mind the hundreds of thousands of slaves whose names, sufferings, and deaths have been long lost, whose lives were distorted into caricature within 19th-century white fiction, or were at best given life on the periphery of the comparatively few slave narratives we have from the antebellum period.ġ2 Years a Slave, adapted from Solomon Northup’s memoir Twelve Years a Slave : Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River, in Louisiana, chronicles the harrowing journey of a free man, husband, and father of three who, at the age of 33, was kidnapped and sold into slavery by two white men who called themselves Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton (real names Alexander Merrill and James Russell, respectively). has already called it, “most certainly one of the most vivid and authentic portrayals of slavery ever captured in a feature film.”) and the points at which the film most clearly reflects and departs from Solomon Northup’s original narrative. During the movie awards season, Steve McQueen’s new film 12 Years a Slave will inspire discussions about its realistic depiction of slavery’s atrocities (Henry Louis Gates Jr. By Daniel Donaghy Title page of an early edition of Twelve Years a Slave. Her world was turned completely upside down-and that’s just the beginning. When the police found her back then, Libby was just a baby-and the only living soul in the house. A brief synopsis: 25-year-old Libby has inherited a house-a mansion, really-that has stood empty for years and was the scene of some very peculiar happenings that culminated in a bizarre crime and some missing children. I did, of course, come prepared with questions about the book and her career, but it felt a lot like gossiping about the neighbours (in the best possible way) as we discussed Libby and Lucy and Henry, the characters from whose perspectives the tale is told. 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