Not "a nation of immigrants" : settler colonialism, white supremacy, and a history of erasure and exclusion /

Not "a nation of immigrants" : settler colonialism, white supremacy, and a history of erasure and exclusion /

Many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US's history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery and structural ine...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Immigrants > United States > Historiography.
Settler colonialism > United States.
Whites > Race identity > United States > History.
United States > Historiography.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Historiography.
United States > Race relations > History.
United States > Ethnic relations > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Settler colonialism
  • Arrivants
  • Continental imperialism
  • Irish settling
  • Americanizing Columbus
  • "Yellow Peril"
  • The border.