White identity formation has been central to land-taking and nation-building

Evidence

This scholarship helps make it evident that the formation of specifically white subject positions has in fact been key, at times as cause and at times as effect, to the sociopolitical processes inherent in taking land and making nations. (Frankenberg, 1997:2) The second and related area is cultural studies, where scholars and practitioners have been interested “both in the making of subjects and in the formation of structures and institutions.” — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 754

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Whiteness is the load-bearing fiction behind America’s racial architecture. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 65; 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; Southern white families’ land claims were founded on Native American removal — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 23 (+1 more)