Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

There is no single line that connects California to the world anticolonial struggle; they are embedded in the same history, as I contended in the first section. It was colonial exploitation that linked these conflicts in the first place, not the spread of doctrines or encounters between individuals. We know this is the case because when large-scale street violence and conflict kicked off in California in the 1960s, it wasn’t thanks to an armed insurrectionary party. Riots that went beyond organizational politics—the organic black-led uprising of the urban exploited, what King called “the language of the unheard”—erupted across Johnson’s America. Police abuse incited rebellions in California’s black ghettos: in Watts (Los Angeles) in 1965 and in Hunter’s Point (San Francisco) the following year, and on a smaller scale in East Palo Alto in 1967, which fit the category by then. The only outside agitators required to start military-scale conflict in America’s streets were the police commuting from their white neighborhoods. That said, there’s value in identifying some particular individual connections between the Bay and the rest of the colonized world. In this period, Californians took conscious political action to join the Third World struggle, even when that meant declaring war on their own government. After all: Isn’t that what colonized people did?

—p.316 3.4 How to Destroy an Empire (301) by Malcolm Harris 1 week, 3 days ago