Facing West

Richard Drinnon suggests that American expansion is characterized by repression and racism. In this book, he links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship from the Pequot War in New England, through American expansion westward to the Philippines and Vietnam.

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American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of "winning" the West, Drinnon links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship from the Pequot War in New England, through American expansion westward to the Pacific, and beyond to the Philippines and Vietnam. He cites parallels between the slaughter of bison on the Great Plains and the defoliation of Vietnam and notes similarities in the language of aggression used in the American West, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia.