July 2 2024 Adrift on the Seas of Time: Who Is An American, and Who Decides?
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In the days marking the founding of our nation, both celebrating the dream of a diverse and inclusive free society of equals wherein race has no meaning under law and in which we are co-owners of the state and guarantors of each other’s universal human rights, and questioning the legacies of history we must escape as nightmares of systems of oppression, including white supremacist terror, theocratic patriarchal sexual terror, authorized identities, imperial conquest and dominion, hierarchies of belonging and exclusionary otherness, and elite hegemonies of wealth, power, and privilege, I find myself interrogating our constructions of national identity.
July 2 2024 Adrift on the Seas of Time: Who Is An American, and Who Decides?
July 2 2024 Adrift on the Seas of Time: Who…
July 2 2024 Adrift on the Seas of Time: Who Is An American, and Who Decides?
In the days marking the founding of our nation, both celebrating the dream of a diverse and inclusive free society of equals wherein race has no meaning under law and in which we are co-owners of the state and guarantors of each other’s universal human rights, and questioning the legacies of history we must escape as nightmares of systems of oppression, including white supremacist terror, theocratic patriarchal sexual terror, authorized identities, imperial conquest and dominion, hierarchies of belonging and exclusionary otherness, and elite hegemonies of wealth, power, and privilege, I find myself interrogating our constructions of national identity.