المختارون والملعونون.. صراع الإبادة الجماعية من أجل أمريكا!

A comprehensive account that places race at the heart of Native American history in the United States, from the award-winning author of This Land is Their Land. When the colonial era began, Europeans did not consider themselves “white,” nor did Native Americans consider themselves “Indians.” However, as the genocidal struggle for America evolved over generations, all that changed. European Americans developed a sense of racial identity, superiority, and national mission—of being chosen. They claimed that the Indians were doomed to disappear so that whites could spread Christian civilization. The Natives responded that the Great Spirit created Indians and whites separately, and that he wanted America to belong to the Indians alone. In "The Chosen and the Damned," famed historian David J. Silverman examines the racial debates between Indians and whites across four centuries, from bloody colonial wars for territory to wars of national annihilation justified as “destiny”; From the establishment of sanctuaries and boarding schools to the rise of the Red Power movement and beyond. In this transformative novel, Silverman shows how white identity, defined in opposition to Indian identity, became central to the construction of the American nation. It also reveals how Indian identity contributed to Native Americans' resistance and resilience as modern tribal peoples, even if it sometimes fueled conflict between them based on race. The history of race in America is usually understood as a binary issue between blacks and whites. The Chosen and the Damned recreates the pivotal role that Indigenous peoples have played, and continue to play, in our national history.