The United States constituted itself as a racialized white nation from its origin

Evidence

Especially since the imperial dawn, the ideas of race and nation have been deeply connected, mainly through concepts of peoplehood. Both as outposts of the British Empire (and to some extent of other European empires as well), and then as an independent nationstate, the United States (and its forerunners) identified itself as a white nation. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 87

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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