American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present- Anticolonial Eruptions

"While structural violence is omnipresent and ubiquitous, this book is a necessary reminder that it is not, however, inevitable. Geo Maher's latest book is a necessary telling of the subversive cunning of global rebellion, deftly illuminating the long history and contemporary path of revolution and resistance unfolding around us."—Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule and Undoing Border Imperialism "An urgent effort to make sense of the senseless, helping readers see the rationality behind the tepid liberal responses to the ideological maximalism of settler colonial racism and violence. Indispensable, timely, and much needed."—Greg Grandin, author of The End of the Myth and Empire's Workshop "This is a remarkably rich and diverse work of political theory. It not only offers valuable insights into the composition of our colonial present but also points to the long history of explosive thought and action that will eventually bring it crashing down: that of the colonized themselves."—Glen Coulthard, author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition "This book is a treasure, dissecting the insidious workings of colonialism in degrading the colonized. It is also a roadmap for resistance and decolonization."—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, historian, professor emerita, and author of Not "A Nation of Immigrants" "In this short, sharp book, Geo Maher reads the ruling-class tendency to describe anticolonial, antislavery, anticapitalist, and antiauthoritarian violence as an 'eruption' as a way to map both the tectonics of revolution and the ideological loam beneath which democratic demands are obscured until they burst into plain sight. Any real change in our society or in the world more generally, Maher suggests, is more likely to result from action…