Not a Nation of Immigrants

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz argues that migrants to the US, largely from the global south, are Americanized in ways that obscure the settler-colonialism that this country was founded on and that we have yet to reckon with. Our Well Read Red, Patricia Kullberg reads excerpts from the essay “The United States is not a nation of immigrants,” published in the Boston Review on August 16, 2021. That essay itself was taken from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s latest book Not “a Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.