Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne

Titel

What White Supremacists Know

Ist Teil von

• Boston review (Cambridge, Mass. : 1982), 2018-10 (8), p.51

Ort / Verlag

Somerville: Boston Critic, Incorporated

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Literature Online (LION eBooks)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• By the presidency of Andrew Jackson (1829-37), whose lust for displacing and killing Native Americans was unparalleled, the character of the U.S. armed forces had come, in the national imaginary, to be deeply entangled with the mystique of indigenous nations-as though, in adopting the practices of irregular warfare, U.S. soldiers had become the very thing they were fighting. Having perfected their art in counterinsurgency operations against Comanches and other Native communities, the Texas Rangers went on to play a significant role in the U.S. invasion of Mexico. [...]WHAT does it matter, for those of us who strive for peace and justice, that the U.S. military had its start in killing indigenous populations, or that U.S. imperialism has its roots in the expropriation of indigenous lands?