White Niggers of America is a manifesto that depicts the life of a working class child growing up within a province exploited by those in power.
Pierre Vallieres begins by offering his life-story as an exploration of a young man who leaves Quebec with feelings of betrayal and later, coming to terms with the state of his homeland, returns to invoke revolution.
The book offers a gripping depiction of Quebec prior to, and early into the Quiet Revolution, but fails short of convincing this reader that economic and political reforms demand violence. In all, I believe that this is an excellent book for those interested in understanding the mind of one who feels that violent revolution (terrorism, or guerrila warfare if you like) is the only means to change.
This book convinces me on the need for every English Canadian to reflect on our country's history (by this, I refer to what we are taugh at school, if the subject was discussed at all), but fails in justifying the violence committed by the FLQ.