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The Chosen and The Damned Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States | 37.45 MB
Title: The Chosen and the Damned
Author: David J. Silverman
Category: Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775), Native American
Language: English | 512 Pages | ISBN: 1635578388
Description:
A sweeping chronicle placing race at the center of Native American U.S. history, from the award-winning author of This Land Is Their Land.
When the colonial era began, Europeans did not consider themselves as "Whites," and Native Americans did not think of themselves as "Indians." Yet as a genocidal struggle for America unfolded over the course of generations, all that changed. Euro-Americans developed a sense of racial identity, superiority, and national mission-of being chosen. They contended that Indians were damned to disappear so Whites could spread Christian civilization. Native people countered that the Great Spirit had created Indians and Whites separately and intended America to belong to Indians alone.
In The Chosen and the Damned , acclaimed historian David J. Silverman traces Indian-White racial arguments across four centuries, from the bloody colonial wars for territory to the national wars of extermination...
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