by Rose Aguilar & Laura Wenus
On this edition of Your Call, we’ll speak with Manu Karuka about his new book Empire’s Tracks.
It tells the story of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee tribes and the Chinese workers who built it. He includes the context of violent histories of colonialism and capitalism around the world, and links military occupation to exclusionary border policies. How do these important perspectives and context change the narrative of US history?…
Image courtesy of KALW
April 04, 2019 – 11:34 BST
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