New Narratives on the Peopling of America: Immigration, Race and Dispossession is a collection of essays that challenge the existing narratives about immigration, displacement, and forced movement. The collection aims to challenge the seemingly fixed perceptions of immigration – both its history and the contemporary political discourse surrounding it – by privileging discussions of race, the myth of whiteness, and the role of land dispossession within narratives about the populating of the Americas. Broken into three sections: “Making a Narrative”, “Beyond a ‘Nation of Immigrants’”, and “Alternative Narratives”, the collection spans a broad historical range offering thematic unity across sections. Read more