Not ‘A Nation of Immigrants’ - Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States
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 decolonialization, 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 from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States.
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This post has 17 comments with rating of 5/5
September 15th, 2021
Can’t wait for the chuds who’ve never read a book above a 4th grade level to flood these comments with their uninformed opinions. Brilliant sociological/political/historical analysis of the horrors the U.S. is built on.
September 15th, 2021
Makes for a pretty good argument for stopping further immigration. If the whole thing was a myth to begin with, why keep letting immigrants in?
September 15th, 2021
Yes, do kick all the immigrants and their descendants out of America!
September 15th, 2021
While is would ask illodiini,”Where are we to go?”, I find illodiini to possess an intellectual honesty lacking in ehead who would use the atrocities of the last (and current inequalities) to preserve the status quo. The cynicism of ehead’s position is, sadly, all too common in the U.S.
September 15th, 2021
If you wish to add historical images to your enjoyment of this audiobook please search for the following text “Iconic Sodbusters Of The Prairie D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. by D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C.” using google for glass plate images hosted on archive dot org
My Ántonia by Willa Cather example https://i.imgur.com/bGuTDeF.jpg
https://archive.org/details/iconic-sodbusters-of-the-prairie-d.-d.-teoli-jr.-a.-c.-193
September 15th, 2021
The the Nebraska Prairie Settlement Act of 1886 to early 1900s granted 160 acres of land to families willing to improve the land for farming. Here is one such a family.
https://i.imgur.com/ih33CcY.jpg
September 16th, 2021
‘MURICA
September 16th, 2021
Tell it like it is, sister. And now we have labor shortages everywhere… weird, huh.
September 16th, 2021
So ANYBODY can write a book? I’m not sure thats a good thing.
And then use that you wrote something and called it a book as an excuse to push it on children.
We need student loan reform.
No more PREYING ON CHILDREN, to stuff your pockets with student loans billed to the taxpayer, living on campus all your life.
A parasite. A child predator. You should be in prison. And let the Blacks out.
September 16th, 2021
My point was, and I find it quite funny indeed, is that all Americans are either immigrants or their descedants, without exception.
September 16th, 2021
Without exception? Native Americans? Where are they going to go? Some people were also coercively transported - I don’t think we should refer to that as immigration. That includes a lot of Irish people, who were forcibly cleared from their own land, as they were starving. WTF?!
September 17th, 2021
The “native” Americans were immigrants 15,000 years ago. They can go “back” to Siberia where they came from.
But ultimately, we all have to go back to Africa.
September 17th, 2021
It’d be adding insult to injury to expect them to pack up for Siberia.
In any event, wasn’t that more like organic, gradual migration, rather than systematic, political, imperial colonisation & aggressive annexation?
September 17th, 2021
People should read a bit of West Coast First Nations history, war, cannibalisms and slavery, right up to the late 1880’s we had indians raiding our local villages and taking slaves that they would later KILL to show off their wealth… Pretty sure it was America that put a stop to that… Just sayin’
September 17th, 2021
So, they had it comin’? Justified genocide? A daring new concept in psychopathy.
October 2nd, 2021
Thanks so much for this!
December 29th, 2022
When I see a lot of comments by RWNTJs, I know it’s gonna be a good book and I just cannot stop myself from downloading. Thanks guys!
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