The true history of the United States’ takeover of the Hawaiian Islands has never really been told to the American people. Once again, big business—in this case the sugar business—was behind the unlawful takeover of the islands by the U.S. Government, which used the pretext that U.S. nationals were in danger. This call for sovereignty is from Native Hawaiians, who have been given the shaft, time and time again, by the U.S. This new nationalism is based on the need of the native population in the islands to survive and prosper, while questioning the ability of native Hawaiians to adjust to “modern society.” SC

Publisher: Na Kane O Ka Malo
Paperback: 162 pages

Reopens the debate over the identity of Columbus. arguing that Columbus was most likely working for the Cathars, the Jews and the Moors instead of for Catholic Spain. The author argues this point by citing the fact that it was common for Christian heretics, in this case the Cathars, to use surnames that reflected their religious beliefs. One of the most common Cathar names, he claims, was Dove, which can be translated as Columbus. Also discussed is the very concept of discovery, as it’s well-known that Vikings had tried to set up colonies in the Newfoundland. The real question, he says, is did Columbus really “discover” anything? SC

Publisher: A & B
Paperback: 254 pages
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The story of 19th-century Green politics, which started with the realization that the Industrial Revolution wasn’t the bringer of Utopia. Reformers still believed in the idea of progress and so tried to counteract the forced urbanization of the working-class . William Morris and others proposed a Utopian vision of industrialized villages. SC

Publisher: Harvester-Sussex
Hardback: 225 pages

This simplistic bit of Bookchinist propaganda is concerned with the re-emergence of fascism in the late 20th century, and with the use of environmentalism as a right-wing cause. The Right’s tendency to use ecology has its historical roots in 19th-century romanticism and the Third Reich, and continues to the present day. The authors use the German historical model as a mechanism to study the role of ecology as a political tool, meanwhile propagating their vision of Social Ecology. SC

Publisher: AK
Paperback: 76 pages

Documents the ideas and formulations between of the ideology of the ecology starting with the “blood and soil “ mysticism in both Britain and Germany in the late 19th century to the Third Reich’s “hidden agenda” of ecology. Using the literary background to scientific ecology, the author profiles such authors as Knut Hamsun and Henry Wiliamsom and the German biological ecologist Ernst Heckle. SC

Publisher: Yale University
Paperback: 292 pages

This is a cleverly written story about a well-educated porter named Dixon and his interactions with various passengers, covering everything from crackers to self-hating educated blacks. But the story is a only a backdrop for Rogers’ own historical research and philosophy:
“‘Didn’t you say you did not believe in the equality of the races?’
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Then why?’
‘Because as you said, sir, it is impossible.’
‘Why? Why?’
‘Because there is but one race—the Human Race.’” SC

Publisher: Rogers
Hardback: 132 pages

Most people see the Klan as a rural and southern phenomenon, but in the 1920s, with the Klan at its height of power, they flourished in the cities, often in the North. The people who joined the Klan were dislocated, frightened and uprooted by the rapid changes in urban life. Many of these people joined the Klan for patriotic reasons unaware of their bigotry. In many places from Dallas to Atlanta, and Buffalo, to Portland, Oregon the Klan won elective office. SC

Publisher: Dee
Paperback: 326 pages

A point-by-point refutation of The Secret Relationship Between Blacks And Jews authored anonymously and published by the Nation Of Islam. Not surprisingly, the author concludes that Jewish slave owners were no better or worse than the average Christian of the period. In fact, according to rabbinical laws, a Jewish slave holder was technically prohibited from having sexual relations with slave girls—causing amazement among Old World Arabs that the Jews didn’t use slave girls for sex. SC

Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
Paperback: 160 pages

A compressive study and definition of the name “Negro,” starting from its origins at the beginning of the slave trade. Moore proves how the word was used to divide the peoples of African descent and reinforce their supposed inferiority. SC

Publisher: Black Classic
Paperback: 108 pages

Marcus Garvey has been called everything from a John the Baptist to a con man. This book sets out to present Garvey’s philosophy/political theory of self-determination for the African peoples. Garvey’s influence is crucial for understanding such diverse groups as Rastafarians, Black Muslims and Black Jews. Garvey was at times a politician, a prophet and a social thinker, and once in political life he was always a force to be reckoned with in his dealings with the white establishment. SC

Publisher: Majority
Paperback: 417 pages
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