{"product_id":"autobiography-of-a-blueeyed-devil-isbn-9781609805203","title":"Autobiography of a Blue-eyed Devil","description":"In an updated second edition of her follow-up to the cult classic \u003ci\u003eCunt\u003c\/i\u003e, Inga Muscio asserts that the history taught in schools and perpetuated in all areas of life in the US is, in fact, a marketing brand developed by powerful people to maintain gross inequities. With \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil\u003c\/i\u003e, it’s Muscio’s turn to take Americans on a tour through our history, from Columbus to today. Whose country is this? Has democracy ever really existed? With her trademark ability to deconstruct reality and expose truths that allow us to see our culture and ourselves more clearly, Muscio delves deep to answer these fundamental questions. Includ- ing chapters such as “God Told Me To Kill You,” on religious intolerance from the 1600s to the 1800s, and “Postage Stamp Redemptions,” in which she challenges the myth that White supremacy and imperialism in the US ended with the civil rights movement, Muscio offers new perspectives on our history that might shock even the most ardent alternative history buff.Foreword by Steven E. Flusty, PhD\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part I: Roots\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Columbus and the New World Order\u003cbr\u003e God Told Me to Kill You\u003cbr\u003e Five Hundred Years of Servitude\u003cbr\u003e Manifest Destiny Variety Show\u003cbr\u003e Postage Stamp Redemptions\u003cbr\u003e Reckoning\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part II: Branches of Oppression\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Tiptoeing Around Noah’s Big Drunk Ass\u003cbr\u003e Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo, Catch a Cracker by the Toe\u003cbr\u003e Cards on the Table\u003cbr\u003e Waving to Stevie\u003cbr\u003e Full Spectrum Dominance\u003cbr\u003e Opiate of the Asses\u003cbr\u003e The End\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Imagination Reclamation Resource Guide\u003cbr\u003e A Glossary of Examined Terms\u003cbr\u003e Endnotes\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Bios\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Credits“I have a new mantra: read Inga. Her passion, her courage, and her incisive words on the most pressing issues of our time are a wonder to read and experience.”\u003cb\u003e –Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Always Running and Hearts and Hands\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Praise for Inga Muscio's previous work: \"Beautifully written and incredibly informative, this book is like no other. It made me laugh, cry and really appreciate what I have down there more than anything I've ever read. Not just as an owner's manual, but a love letter to the most valuable thing on the planet. Everyone who was born out of one needs to read \u003ci\u003eCunt.\u003c\/i\u003e” \u003cb\u003e–Margaret Cho\u003c\/b\u003eFeminist, anti-racist advocate and provocateur, \u003cb\u003eINGA MUSCIO\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eCunt: A Declaration of Independence\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in the Pacific Northwest and has an extensive lecture schedule across the nation.\u003cb\u003ePART I: ROOTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Since I was a child, I’ve experienced history as a study in disconnectedness. I was blessed with parents who had actual history books in the house, so I was never reliant on the pap that’s passed off as history in schools.\u003cbr\u003e             Still, though, it took me a long time to understand that U.S. history, alone, is at least eighteen mall-sized libraries crammed tight with books, films, music, zines, art, and microfiche up the ass. In my country, though, history is presented as one big book, and everyone is expected to read this book, memorize the facts, know them, love them, and \u003ci\u003emove the fuck on.\u003c\/i\u003e Similar to some of the reactions I saw to “Acrimony of Cunts,” this take on U.S. history fogs out everything that people living under the constructed perspective of learned white supremacist racism do not wish to see.\u003cbr\u003e             In the genuine, authentic, normal history of the U.S., indigenous people are not slaughtered, raped, and forcibly displaced. They’re just “removed.” Slavery was a few bad apples in the back-ass South, and that has all been cleared up. Ditto the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and every other atrocity that has somehow managed to seep into the U.S.’s mainstream collective consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e             Meanwhile, all white men are heroes and brave and noble and so are some white women and no on Nat Turner, but yes on Harriet Tubman.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e So yeah.\u003cbr\u003e             One starts to wonder why \u003ci\u003eexactly\u003c\/i\u003e it just so happens\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethat almost every U.S. street, building, and landmark that isn’t named after Rosa Parks, Pocahontas, César Chávez, or Martin Luther King Jr. is named after a white person.\u003cbr\u003e             Is it some kind of bizarre coincidence that superficially portrayed good and noble white people are almost exclusively the gods and heroes of U.S. history?","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303907774693,"sku":"NP9781609805203","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781609805203.jpg?v=1767721971","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/autobiography-of-a-blueeyed-devil-isbn-9781609805203","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}