US national identity was constitutively constructed as a white nation

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

• XREF: This is the definitional root connecting racial formation to nationhood and peoplehood, an anchor claim for existing vault race-theory passages. — connects to: White subject positions were both cause and effect of nation-building and land-taking — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 754; The United States constituted itself as a racialized white nation from its origin; American nationalism fuses national identity with white Americans’ individual selfhood. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America…, 273 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: White subject positions were both cause and effect of nation-building and land-taking — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 754; The United States constituted itself as a racialized white nation from its origin; American nationalism fuses national identity with white Americans’ individual selfhood. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America…, 273 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• The United States constituted itself as a racialized white nation from its origin #corroborates (0.96)