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“Curing America's racial pathology couldn't be done with good intentions or presidential elections. Like all diseases, it had to be analyzed at a microscopic…

— Mat Johnson

“CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: DEAD WHITE MALE”

— Charles Krauthammer

Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people…

— James W. Loewen

“The white men had basically crapped all over the only race that could call itself indigenous in America.”

— David Baldacci

“What I discovered during my studies in Poe's and other early Americans' texts was the intellectual source of racial Whiteness. Here, in these pages,…

— Mat Johnson

“Therefore, good-bye Columbus? Balzac once suggested that all great fortunes are founded on a crime. So too all great civilizations. The European conquest of…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent…

— Jared Diamond

“Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. But what they did not, could…

— Charles C. Mann

“Many whites, now proclaiming that science proved that people of African descent were intellectually inferior and congenitally prone to criminal behavior, looked wistfully to…

— Edward E. Baptist

“Scholars have estimated that by 1850, the aboriginal population in North America—besieged by the invaders’ explosive weaponry, wondrous technology, contemptuous cruelty, and irresistible pathogens,…

— Richard Kluger

“I discovered race in America and it fascinated me.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“That European diseases ran rampant in the New World is an old story, but recent discoveries in genetics, epidemiology, and archaeology have painted a…

— Douglas Preston