Episode 8: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not “a Nation of Immigrants”

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John Professor Jeffrey Sachs and highly acclaimed author of An
Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz, to discuss her latest novel, Not “A Nation of
Immigrants.”   

Together they discuss settler colonialism, white supremacy, and
the history of erasure and exclusion in the United States while
urging the audience to embrace a more complex and honest history,
which has typically been left out of traditional American
textbooks.

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Footnotes


An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

Immigration to the US

Settler Colonialism 

First Immigration Act  - Chinese Exclusion Act 

Northwest Territory 

Andrew Jackson 

Irish Catholic Immigration to America

Agrarian Civilizations 

 John Smith 

Alexander Hamilton 

Slave Labor 

Sugar Plantations in the Caribbean 

Marriage of Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton 

A Fiscal Military State 

From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 24 November 1801

Doctrine of Discovery 

City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York

Ethnic Cleansing in the US 



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