When Race Burns Class

An interview with author J. Sakai about his groundbreaking work Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat, accompanied by Kuwasi Balagoon’s essay “The Continuing Appeal of Imperialism.” Sakai discusses how he came to write Settlers, the relationship of settlerism to racism, and between race and class, the prospects for organizing within the white working class, and of the rise of the far right.