Have any of you read "Legacy to Liberation" published by AK Press? I'm slowly working my way through it, with the view of reviewing it for APR. It's an anthology on the history of Asian-American activism in the United States since the 1960s. It's an important book, but it is pretty awful in many places and very good in others. Some articles are filled with typos and others are uncritical histories of organizations told by the leadership of same organizations.
What's valuable to me as a white activist is to read about all of the struggles that have been conducted outside of the official narrative of American activism. While it was encouraging to read about grassroots struggles and campaigns, it was really depressing to read about the fixation with Marxist-Leninism and Maoism. After a while, your eyes glaze over after reading about which group worked with which group and what the lines were for the sectarian groups.
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