Cleveland Peace Action hosts acclaimed historian and author, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz for a virtual discussion of her 2021 book, Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz will be joined in conversation with Detroit-based activist and writer Frank Joyce. Q and A with the audience will follow. Program is free and open to the public.

The eye-opening and transformative new book from the author of An Indigenous People’s History of the United States will challenge what you believe about U.S. history. An essential text for the twenty-first century, Not “A Nation of Immigrants” charges that it’s time to stop perpetuating simplistic and ahistorical fantasies and embrace the true, complex and often sobering history of these United States.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part- Indian mother. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. She lives in San Francisco.

Frank Joyce is a lifelong Detroit based writer and activist. He is co-editor with Karin Aguilar-San Juan of The People Make The Peace: Lessons From the Vietnam Antiwar Movement and he is currently writing a book about unlearning white supremacy.

Co-sponsored by these bookstores: Mac’s Backs, Loganberry Books, Learned Owl

Other co-sponsors include American Indian Movement-Ohio, Cleveland Nonviolence Network, County Progressive Caucus, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Hip Hop Congress, Black on Black Crime Inc., Lake Erie Native American Council, End Poverty Now!, Ohio Poor People’s Campaign, NEOH Black Health Coalition, Young Latino Network