1846–1848
ConquestBook sources
U.S. invasion of Mexico
Mexico and annexed northern territories; Mexicans and Indigenous nations
The war transferred a vast region to the United States. Dunbar-Ortiz documents racial arguments used to justify expansion and connects annexation to later dispossession of Indigenous and Mexican communities.
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Context / qualification
War, racist justification, and subsequent land loss should be distinguished rather than collapsed into one event.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 7
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 7
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 7