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The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States | David J. Silverman (Author) Viet Thanh Nguyen A New York Times NotableA sweeping chronicle placing race at the center of Native American U. S. history, from the award winning author of This Land Is Their Land. When the colonial era began, Europeans did not consider themselves as Whites, and Native Americans did not think of themselves as Indians. Yet as a genocidal struggle for America unfolded over the course of generations, all that changed. Euro Americans developed a sense of racial identity, superiority, and