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DESCRIPTION:Author & historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in conversation with Alejandro 
 Murguía\n\nNew Book: "Not A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, 
 White Supremacy, \nand a History of Erasure and Exclusion"\n\nTue, Aug 24, 
 2021, 6:00 PM PDT\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-in-conversation-with-alejandro-murguia-tickets-151014228623\n\n\n"Not 
 A Nation of Immigrants" 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.\n\nWhether 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.\n\nShe 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.\n\nWhile 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.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/11/18844267.php
SUMMARY:US History of Colonialism, Genocide, White Supremacy & Slavery w/ author Dunbar-Ortiz
LOCATION:Online event 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/11/18844267.php
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