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born 1939 United States

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (born September 10, 1939) is an American historian, writer and feminist.

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Lack of imagination also indicates lack of commitment for figuring it out.

Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (2021)

A revolutionary working class must be able to acknowledge its enemy and eschew not only capitalism but also colonialism and imperialism.

Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (2021)

A number of independent nation-states with seats in the United Nations have less territory and smaller populations than some Indigenous nations of North America.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

"A nation of immigrants" was a mid-twentieth-century revisionist origin story.

Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (2021)

In the case of US settler colonialism, land was the primary commodity.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

Surviving genocide, by whatever means, is resistance: non-Indians must know this in order to more accurately understand the history of the United States. (Author's Note)

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

I think the best place to start in developing solidarity with indigenous and other land struggles is the work being done at the international level, mostly in the United Nations system.

The US polity has been trying to rid itself of Indigenous nations since first settlement. Four hundred years later, multiculturalism is the mechanism for avoiding acknowledgment of settler colonialism.

Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (2021)

"Colonization," "dispossession," "settler colonialism," "genocide"-these are the terms that drill to the core of US history, to the very source of the country's existence. (Author's Note)

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

Everything in US history is about the land-who oversaw and cultivated it, fished its waters, maintained its wildlife; who invaded and stole it; how it became a commodity ("real estate") broken into pieces to be bought and sold on the market.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

White supremacy and settler-colonial violence are permanently embedded in US topography. The United States has a foundational problem of white nationalism that wasn't new with Nixon or Reagan or Trump.

Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (2021)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.