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  • Published: 15 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781609805203
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $32.99

Autobiography of a Blue-eyed Devil

My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society




From the celebrated author of the cult classic, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, a searing picture of our history, and the cultural narratives that prevent us from realizing true freedom and community.

In an updated second edition of her follow-up to the cult classic Cunt, 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 Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil, 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.

  • Published: 15 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781609805203
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $32.99

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Praise for Autobiography of a Blue-eyed Devil

"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. She speaks with truth and imagination. She's funny and dead serious. On race and the travesties of our 'official' history, she's simply brilliant." --Luis J. Rodriquez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.

"Muscio [is] one of the smartest and most honest thinkers I've ever encountered. Her wry and entertaining stories are really daggers and hand grenades ripping away at both the spectacular and everyday forms of racism that have become the new common sense in the U.S. Poetic, funny, biting, disturbing, transformative...this is the kind of ride some folks dread but everyone requires." Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

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