Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Distinguished Visiting Writer 2021
About Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian, writer, and professor emeritus in Ethnic Studies at California State University East Bay, and longtime social justice activist. She is author and editor of fifteen books, including a literary memoir trilogy: Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie; Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975; and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War. Among historical works is Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico; An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States; Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment; and Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and A History of Exclusion and Erasure.
Work from Faculty:
- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/237686/an-indigenous-peoples-history-of-the-united-states-by-roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/9780807057834/excerpt
- https://www.counterpunch.org/2006/05/31/stop-saying-this-is-a-nation-of-immigrants-/
- https://monthlyreview.org/2018/01/01/settler-colonialism-and-the-second-amendment/
- https://monthlyreview.org/2015/02/01/native-land-and-african-bodies-the-source-of-u-s-capitalism/