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2.0
Not this one, kids. Not this one. It's sort of about the Spanish-American war, so I realize why they had me read it for my Imperialism class, but I found the plot very boring, the main American characters and the novel's tone was overtly racist, and I just couldn't come to like the amateur writing style. This book is *not* a critique of American imperialism and racism (as in the case with Faulkner or Twain), but it is an example of imperial and racist propaganda. That's what made it so disturbing. The way they describe Latin Americans . . . just . . .
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