Hey /lit/. I'm writing an essay on American imperialism and it's consequences and i would appreciate if you could recommend me some literature on the topic.
>pic related
umm gore vidal?
>>7368905
Will look into it, thanks for the contribution!!
>tfw sophomore and I have had to write roughly 500 3- to 6-page papers on white imperialism
>tfw if I could go back in time I would stop slavery just so that today I would be able to maybe learn about other stuff that has happened in history
don't worry, OP, you will get plenty of practice. also, /lit/ is not your homework board.
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>>7368925
Oh sorry, but i am just asking for book recommendations on the topic, not for anyone to do it, and it's my graduation essay.
>>7368939
What the fuck did you just say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know i graduated top of my politics class and i’ve been involved in privilege checking with over 150 confirmed political demonstrations i’m trained in conflict resolution and i was the most oppressed person in my entire upper middle class high school you are nothing to me but another cultural appropriator i will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which have never been seen on this side of the 49th parallel mark my words you think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the internet think again fucker, as we speak i’m checking with my anarcho-communist analyst brigade for your location so you better be prepared to deal with some molotov cocktails and angry feminists flying through your window yOU’RE FUCKING DEAD CHERRY! i can be anywhere at any time and i can kill you in over seven hundred ways and that’s just with me boring you to death while i talk about privilege not only am i extensively trained in hotline management but i have access to an entire arsenal of sociological articles to prove my point and i will use them to wipe your fucking face off the earth you little shit if only you had known what oppressed retribution your cultural appropriation would unleash then maybe you would have held your fucking tongue but you couldn’t you’re fucking dead kiddo
>>7368902
cool book. if it's all true.
>>7368977
Yeah, im using just some relevant details out of it.
>>7368925
>not writing about how the white-centric topic was itself an instance of stealth white imperialism, that emphasis of race is itself a European/white phenomenon and insisting on giving a non-racially-divided view on imperialism
>>7368985
Op here, my essay is not about white imperialism in particular, it's about American imperialism and foreign policy.
>>7368993
Manufacturing Consent will make your teacher happy.
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War by James Risen
Don’t Wait for the Next War by Wesley K. Clark
People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
