Indian, Black and Irish : indigenous nations, African peoples, European invasions, 1492-1790 /
This book traces 500 years of European-American colonization and racialized dominance, expanding our common assumptions about the ways racialization was used to build capitalism and the modern world-system. Professor Fenelon draws on personal experience and the agency of understudied Native (and Afr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2023.
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| Series: | New critical viewpoints on society series.
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| Summary: | This book traces 500 years of European-American colonization and racialized dominance, expanding our common assumptions about the ways racialization was used to build capitalism and the modern world-system. Professor Fenelon draws on personal experience and the agency of understudied Native (and African) resistance leaders, to weave a story too often hidden or distorted in the annals of the academy, that remains invisible at many universities and historical societies. The book identifies three epochs of racial constructions, colonialism and capitalism that created the United States. Indigenous nations, the first to be racialized on a global scale, African peoples, enslaved and brought to the Americas and European immigrants. It offers a sweeping analysis of the forces driving the invasion, occupation and exploitation of Native America and the significance of labor in American history provided by Indigenous people, Africans and immigrants, specifically the Irish. Indian, Black and Irish makes major contributions toward a deeper understanding of where supremacy and sovereignty originated from, and how our modern world has used these sociopolitical constructions, to build global hegemony that now threatens our very existence, through wars and climate change. |
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| Physical Description: | xxix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [260]-277) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1032324481 1032324503 9781032324487 9781032324500 |