audiobook Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth by Pamela Brandwein in History

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Bridging the multiple histories and present-day iterations of U.S. settler colonialism in North America and its overseas imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific; the essays in this groundbreaking volume underscore the United States as a fluctuating constellation of geopolitical entities marked by overlapping and variable practices of colonization. By rethinking the intertwined experiences of Native Americans; Puerto Ricans; Chamorros; Filipinos; Hawaiians; Samoans; and others subjected to U.S. imperial rule; the contributors consider how the diversity of settler claims; territorial annexations; overseas occupations; and circuits of slavery and labor—along with their attendant forms of jurisprudence; racialization; and militarism—both facilitate and delimit the conditions of colonial dispossession. Drawing on the insights of critical indigenous and ethnic studies; postcolonial theory; critical geography; ethnography; and social history; this volume emphasizes the significance of U.S. colonialisms as a vital analytic framework for understanding how and why the United States is what it is today.Contributors. Julian Aguon; Joanne Barker; Berenika Byszewski; Jennifer Nez Denetdale; Augusto Espiritu; Alyosha Goldstein; J. K?haulani Kauanui; Barbara Krauthamer; Lorena Oropeza; Vicente L. Rafael; Dean Itsuji Saranillio; Lanny Thompson; Fa'anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa; Manu Vimalassery