248 - Not a Nation of Immigrants (w/ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)

This week we are joined by historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to discuss why America is not ‘a nation of immigrants’, and how this feel-good liberal mythos, created by JFK and exemplified in the musical ‘Hamilton’, obscures America’s settler colonial history

Theme Song by Brain Tan:

Links:

‘This is no ‘nation of immigrants’’ - (article) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz : https://www.uuworld.org/articles/no-nation-immigrants

“Not a Nation of Immigrants” book (Beacon Press): http://www.beacon.org/Not-A-Nation-of-Immigrants-P1641.aspx

‘‘Hamilton’ ignores the statesman’s strategy to fund genocidal warfare against Indigenous Peoples’ by Mark Meuwese: https://theconversation.com/hamilton-ignores-the-statesmans-strategy-to-fund-genocidal-warfare-against-indigenous-peoples-142616

‘New Research Suggests Alexander Hamilton Was a Slave Owner’ by David Kindy (Smithsonian Magazine): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-research-alexander-hamilton-slave-owner-180976260/

“I’m Alexander Hamilton’s Descendant. And He Wasn’t As Perfect As You Think.” by Ariel Clay Schuyler Hamilton Ehrlich: https://medium.com/@AriEhrlich/im-alexander-hamilton-s-direct-descendant-and-he-wasn-t-as-perfect-as-you-think-dbe61f6aab7

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘All the criticisms are valid’ tweet: https://twitter.com/lin_manuel/status/1280120414279290881?lang=en

‘How Hitler found his blueprint for a German empire by looking to the American West’ by David Carroll Cochran : https://wagingnonviolence.org/2020/10/hitler-found-blueprint-german-empire-in-the-american-west/

‘The Savage Constitution’ by Gregory Ablavsky: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3412&context=dlj

‘The Transit of Empire’ by Jodie Byrd: https://learningcriticalrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/First-peoples_-New-Directions-in-Indigenous-Studies-Byrd-Jodi-A.-The-transit-of-empire-_-indigenous-critiques-of-colonialism-2011-University-of-Minnesota-Press-libgen.lc_.pdf

“Nothing Ever Dies” by Viet Nguyen (Book Review / Overview): https://usso.uk/book-review-nothing-ever-dies-vietnam-and-the-memory-of-war-by-viet-thanh-nguyen/

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