US founders designed westward expansion to seize Indigenous land
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 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: US founders designed westward territorial expansion from the nation’s outset; US history centers fundamentally on control and commodification of land; European colonization triggered demographic collapse and forced removal that shattered existing Indigenous societies — The Social Consequences of Colonialism (+13 more)
Related
- Contemporary US imperial racism echoes the founding wars against indigenous peoples (similarity 0.89)
- US founders designed westward territorial expansion from the nation’s outset (similarity 0.82)
- US Indian policy constitutes settler colonialism rather than mere discrimination (similarity 0.79)
- The first European settlement in the Americas quickly collapsed into violence with indigenous peoples (similarity 0.79)
- Land seizure through genocide, not technology, powered US expansion (similarity 0.78)
Library Connections
Broader Connections
- Contemporary US imperial racism echoes the founding wars against indigenous peoples
#expands(0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 7