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The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency
How the labels applied to violence abroad affect how Americans think the U.S. government should respond.
by
Mahmood Mamdani
via
London Review of Books
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on
March 8, 2007
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The United States Is Not “a Nation of Immigrants”
Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it.
by
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
via
Boston Review
on
August 12, 2021
Fascism and Analogies — British and American, Past and Present
The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.
by
Priya Satia
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
March 16, 2021