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

Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs

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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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