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Offers a powerful and timely settler colonial theory of race and racism in America, bringing together past and present, social and political movements, constitutional law and international law, to show why the pursuit of racial justice in this country must be understood as intimately linked to Indigenous struggles for self-determination. A must read for anyone interested in making sense of racialization in America today, and in re-envisioning a more equal society-a project that Saito compellingly shows must at its core be a project of decolonization. -- E. Tendayi Achiume, Faculty Director, UCLA Law Promise Institute for Human Rights A pivotal analysis of structural racism and its historical foundations in the development of the US. Saito's perspective on the legacy of settler colonialism and its impact on indigenous nations and African descendants in the US challenges liberal and neoconservative explanations of US racial politics. It also seeks solutions beyond typical calls for assimilation and liberal pluralism, looking instead for 'decolonization' of oppressed peoples through paths of self-determination. -- Akinyele Umoja, author of <i>We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement</i>

A timely and urgent book: it argues that a shift away from demanding procedural fairness and towards precipitating structural change - decolonization - is key to finally overcoming all racisms. Saito issues a compelling call that we focus on relationships, recognize the ongoing settler colonization of the North American continent, and 'refuse to function as colonizers.' -- Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Offers a powerful and timely settler colonial theory of race and racism in America, bringing together past and present, social and political movements, constitutional law and international law, to show why the pursuit of racial justice in this country must be understood as intimately linked to Indigenous struggles for self-determination. A must read for anyone interested in making sense of racialization in America today, and in re-envisioning a more equal society-a project that Saito compellingly shows must at its core be a project of decolonization. -- E. Tendayi Achiume, Faculty Director, UCLA Law Promise Institute for Human Rights This work offers a cure to our white supremacist, patriarchal society by pointing us towards an understanding that the liberation of people of color and white settler allies must be tied to the support of Indigenous Peoples' sovereignty. It provides a substantial contribution to Settler Colonial, Indigenous, African American, and Ethnic studies. -- Michael Yellow Bird, Dean, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba A pivotal analysis of structural racism and its historical foundations in the development of the US. Saito's perspective on the legacy of settler colonialism and its impact on indigenous nations and African descendants in the US challenges liberal and neoconservative explanations of US racial politics. It also seeks solutions beyond typical calls for assimilation and liberal pluralism, looking instead for 'decolonization' of oppressed peoples through paths of self-determination. -- Akinyele Umoja, author of We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement

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Natsu Taylor Saito is a Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at Georgia State University's College of Law in Atlanta. She is the author of Meeting the Enemy: American Exceptionalism and International Law (NYU Press, 2010), Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law: Why Structural Racism Persists (NYU Press, 2020), and From Chinese Exclusion to Guantánamo Bay: Plenary Power and the Prerogative State (University Press of Colorado, 2006).

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