Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law. Natsu Taylor Saito

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      Names: Saito, Natsu Taylor, author.

      Title: Settler colonialism, race, and the law : why structural racism persists / Natsu Taylor Saito.

      Description: New York : New York University Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019008926| ISBN 9780814723944 (cl.; acid-free paper) | ISBN 0814723942 (cl.; acid-free paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Race discrimination—Law and legislation—United States—History. | Minorities—Legal status, laws, etc.—United States—History. | Racism—United States—History. | United States—Race relations—History. | United States—Colonization—History. | Indigenous peoples—Legal status, laws, etc.—United States—History. | Decolonization—United States—History. | United States—Territorial expansion.

      Classification: LCC KF4755 .S25 2020 | DDC 305.800973—dc23

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      Contents

      Introduction

      1. Racial Realities

      2. Unsettling Narratives

      3. Settler Colonialism

      4. Land and Indigenous Peoples

      5. Enslaved Labor and Strategies of Subjugation

      6. “Emancipated” African Americans: Rights and Redundancy

      7. Others of Color: Inclusions and Exclusions

      8. Others of Color: Subordination and Manipulation

      9. Constitutional Protection and the Dynamic of Difference

      10. International Law and Human Rights

      11. Decolonization and Self-Determination

      12. Mapping New Worlds

      Conclusion: We Won When We Started

      Acknowledgments

      Notes

      Works Cited

      List of Cases

      Index

      About the Author

      Introduction

      How do we rectify a system that so brilliantly serves its intended purpose?

      —Dorothy E. Roberts

      Racialization has always been essential to the establishment and maintenance of structures of power and privilege in the United States. Racial realism, as the late Derrick A. Bell Jr. termed it, forces us to acknowledge that communities of color in the United States remain economically, politically, and socially subordinated, long after the formal abolition of American apartheid.1 An honest assessment of these realities makes it clear that neither the СКАЧАТЬ