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

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

Summary: "Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne 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 inequality, all of which we still grapple with today. She explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity - founded and built by immigrants - was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonization, justice, reparations, and social equality. Moreover, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good - but inaccurate - story promotes a benign narrative of progress, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state, and imperialist since its inception. While some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and ahistorical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States"--Publisher's description.

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  • ISBN: 9780807036297
  • ISBN: 0807036293
  • ISBN: 9780807036303
  • Physical Description: print
    xxvii, 362 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Alexander Hamilton -- Chapter 2. Settler colonialism -- Chapter 3. Arrivants -- Chapter 4. Continental imperialism -- Chapter 5. Irish settling -- Chapter 6. Americanizing Columbus -- Chapter 7. "Yellow Peril" -- Chapter 8. The border -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
Subject: United States Historiography
Immigrants United States Historiography
United States Emigration and immigration Historiography
Settler colonialism United States
White people Race identity United States History
United States Race relations History
United States Ethnic relations History
États-Unis Relations raciales Histoire
États-Unis Relations interethniques Histoire
Settler colonialism
Emigration and immigration Historiography
Ethnic relations
Historiography
Immigrants Historiography
Race relations
White people Race identity
United States
Genre: HISTORY / United States / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY / Historiography.
History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library E 175 .D86 2021 680176 Stacks Available -

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