Lost history viewed through cracks in the cartographies of control, including “tri-racial isolate” communities, buccaneers, “white Indians,” black Islamic movements, the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, the Métis nation, scandalous eugenics theories, rural hippie communes, and many other aspects of North American autonomous cultures. A festschrift honoring late historian Hugo Leaming Bey of the Moorish Science Temple.
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This excellent anthology explores Colonial Subject Peoples abandoning civilization and creating tribal units with American Indians, creating vital, nonimperial creole cultures. The book is crucial in uncovering intercultural contact that was decisively against the colonialist directions of American history. This book is part of a general movement to create and discover anarcho-tribal connections across cultures. By exploring "Tri-Racial Communities" of disenfranchized Europeans, runaway Africans, and displaced American Indians, it shows the reality of human community outside of imperialist, nationalist dogma, and opens the possibility for fomenting an anti-imperial, polyethnic primal revival in the present.
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... and informative to boot!Students of divergent historical, political, & sociological subjects will all find something of interest in this collection; from the African diaspora in America to the seeds of U.S. Outlaw culture to forgotten social experiments that may have been hundreds of years ahead of their time- all are interwoven and flesh out lost details long ignored by establishment accounts of history.
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If you're at all interested in American history, this study of "Dropout Culture" is an amazing read. I had NO idea that there was such a vivid and thriving counterculture back 100 or 200 years or more: Americans who walked away from all the norms and mores of early American capitalism and sought a different reality. This sometimes reads like a William S Burroughs fantasy of anarchist utopia-- "Cities of the Red Night" or "The Western Lands" or "The Place of Dead Roads"-- where "pirates" make their own compacts and live without laws and governments.I loved this odd and compelling look at an alternate past I had never imagined existed.
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