Unbecoming British - Yokota, Kariann Akemi (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Colorado Denver)

From household objects to maps and ideas of race, Kariann Yokota examines early US history through the lens of postcolonial theory. While its leaders went to great lengths to establish their "civility,"what really distinguished the new nation were its unlimited natural resources, slavery, and the displacement of native societies.