General Readings about Race & Colonialism in U.S.

Racial Formation in the United States – Michael Omi & Howard Winant
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance – Edgar Villanueva
The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation – Stuart Hall
- But really the best thing is this classic ancient video Race the Floating Signifier
Indigenous Peoples History of the US by Roxanne Ortiz
Traces of History: Elemental Structures of Race by Patrick Wolfe (global)
- “Race is a trace of history: colonised populations continue to be racialised in specific ways that mark out and reproduce the unequal relationships into which Europeans have co-opted those populations. This argument will be exemplified with reference to the diversity distinguishing racial discourses obtaining in Australia, the USA, Brazil, central Europe, and Palestine/Israel.” p.2
- “race is colonialism speaking” p.5
- “Racialisation represents a response to the crisis occasioned when colonisers are threatened with the requirement to share social space with the colonised.” p.14