Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion Binding:Paperback Cultural authenticity: navigating the complexities

Cultural authenticity: navigating the complexities of identity and reconnecting with our most authentic selves

When she breaks a cardinal rule—“don’t call the cops”—her decision ensnares a community and brings unmanageable grief to a mother

She has forty-three dollars to her name

With Mami as her unpredictable

like her mother and sister

Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion Binding:Paperback Cultural authenticity: navigating the complexitiesDebunks the pervasive and self congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz asserts this