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A review by just_me_gi
Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation by David Correia
5.0
"We write as ancestors _from the future, enacting just relations that
cannot be found in the nightmarish present of the bordertown. In this
sense, the settler fears the future. He is an alien in both space and time.
This book offers no measured gestures toward liberation, nor mercy for
settler feelings. The word for that is refonn. But the bordertown cannot
be reformed and settler society cannot be redeemed. We study it not to
change it but to destroy it. To read this book is to move back and forth
between the settler world and the Native world, to enter into relations of
liberation that can replace the bordertown. The Native liberation we write
about is not some distant dream from some future world." p. 18
cannot be found in the nightmarish present of the bordertown. In this
sense, the settler fears the future. He is an alien in both space and time.
This book offers no measured gestures toward liberation, nor mercy for
settler feelings. The word for that is refonn. But the bordertown cannot
be reformed and settler society cannot be redeemed. We study it not to
change it but to destroy it. To read this book is to move back and forth
between the settler world and the Native world, to enter into relations of
liberation that can replace the bordertown. The Native liberation we write
about is not some distant dream from some future world." p. 18