Contemporary US imperial racism echoes the founding wars against indigenous peoples

Evidence

“In this remarkable primer Deepa Kumar expertly shows how racism is central to contemporary US imperial politics in ways similar to previous imperial wars, including the one that constituted the United States over the dead bodies of indigenous ‘redskins.’ An antiracist and antiwar activist as well as a model scholar-teacher, Kumar has written a comprehensive and most readable guide to exposing and opposing hatred of Islam.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 7

Categorization

• XREF: Draws the settler-colonial continuity line the reader seeks between domestic fear and imperial projects — indigenous extermination as template for current wars. — connects to: Black struggles in the US function under domestic colonialism linked to worldwide anticolonialism; Tarrant’s massacre repeated settler-colonial violence against indigenous peoples; Unacknowledged wars against Indigenous peoples preceded global US total war — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 37 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Unacknowledged wars against Indigenous peoples preceded global US total war #corroborates (0.70) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 37
• US conquest of the Sioux followed the classic stages of colonialism #expands (0.60) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 480