Excerpt: Why were liberals incensed by Rachel Dolezal masquerading as Black but relatively untroubled by Elizabeth Warren’s claim to Cherokee ancestry? How does the anti-racist Left’s ritual rendition and interpretation of Bacon’s Rebellion and Radical Reconstruction constrain an adequate understanding of white supremacy in the US? In what ways is the election of Donald Trump related to neoliberal multiculturalism and the longue durée of the US settler state? Kevin Bruyneel’s latest book, Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States, raises and answers such urgent questions and more.