"The common assumption that the United States is a "nation of immigrants" camouflages the reality that the US is a colonialist settler state"-- Many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US's history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all...