RACE & EMPIRE II

In the second episode of our arc on RACE & EMPIRE, I offer a revisionist, non-consensus narrative of American history, centered on the simple fact that, in its formative years, the settler nation we call the United States was a frontier state built out by exterminatory colonization and slave labor.

Fall 2021: Lecture 3/10.

Bob Dylan, "Only a Pawn in Their Game"

Langston Hughes, "Long View: Negro"

Gil Scott-Heron, "Who'll Pay Reparations on My Soul?"

Bob Marley & the Wailers, "Buffalo Soldier"