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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Ishmael Reed
DESCRIPTION:Discusses her latest book\, Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism\, White Supremacy\, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, September 2\, 2021 – 5:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of the modern classic An Indigenous People’s History of the United States\, joins us to discuss her latest book of historical reckoning\, Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism\, White Supremacy\, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (Beacon Press). Roxanne will be joined in conversation by legendary writer Ishmael Reed\, \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a one-woman wrecking ball against the tower of lies erected by generations of official and television historians—people who make a living glorifying slave traders and exterminators of Native Americans.”—Ishmael Reed \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Not “A Nation of Immigrants”\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. \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. \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. \nAbout Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize\, and is the author or editor of many books\, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award. She lives in San Francisco. Connect with her at reddirtsite.com or on Twitter @rdunbaro. \nIshmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo Jumbo\, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down\, Conjugating Hindi\, Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico and most recently Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues and The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda. He is also a publisher\, television producer\, songwriter\, radio and television commentator\, lecturer\, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition\, or Neo-Hoodooism. A regular contributor to CounterPunch and founder of the Before Columbus Foundation\, he taught at the University of California\, Berkeley for over thirty years\, retiring in 2005. Reed is the only person to be nominated for the National Book Award in two categories in the same year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-and-ishmael-reed/
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