Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat

In many ways J. Sakai's Settlers was a groundbreaking book for that sliver of the North American left that one may term "revolutionary". People from all strains of the radical left took notice of its analysis. It was promoted by the Love & Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation, the Maoist International Movement and various radical feminist, anti-imperialist and anti-racist organizations. The book is still being debated, interpreted, and re-interpreted today. This page is meant to provide references and links to reviews of Settlers. If you have any comments please don't hesitate to email me. I also hope to scan sections of the book here, so that people can get a taste of what it's all about. Several years ago, J. Sakai agreed to be interviewed by Solidarity Publishing and Distribution, a prisoner-support project based here in Montreal. The text of this interview is available alongside Kuwasi Balagoon's The Continuing Appeal of Anti-Imperialism in the booklet When Race Burns Class, published and distributed by Kersplebedeb. The text of the interview, along ith Balagoon's review, are both aprovided here, so you can read them online.

Excerpts from Settlers

Reviews/Discussion of Settlers

• Clyde in Slingshot #52
• Kuwasi Balagoon in Jan/Feb 1995 Prison News Service (#49)
• MC5 from the Maosit International Movement
  
• Sebastian Lamb  from New Socialist magazine
  

Other writings by J. Sakai:

• The Shock of Recognition: Looking at Hamerquist's "Fascism & Anti-Fascism"
• Interview with J. Sakai on the subject of Settlers, from When Race Burns Class
• Stolen at Gunpoint: Ernest Aguilar interview J. Sakai from the Anarchist People of Color website
  
• Beyond McAntiwar: notes on finding our footing on the collapsing stageset of the u.s. empire (2005)
• Two Teachers Out Of Prison (2005)
  

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