{"id":25992,"date":"2020-03-07T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=25992"},"modified":"2020-03-05T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T16:29:19","slug":"book-on-the-evils-of-settler-colonialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/07\/book-on-the-evils-of-settler-colonialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Book on the evils of settler colonialism&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230; offered for sale on land once owned by Native Americans who were dispossessed by settler colonialism. From the window of the Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, Massachusetts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_5905.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1074\" height=\"1520\" src=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_5905-1074x1520.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_5905-1074x1520.jpg 1074w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_5905-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_5905-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_5905-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_5905-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_5905.jpg 1357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1074px) 100vw, 1074px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Where has the author, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rashid_Khalidi\">Rashid Khalidi<\/a>, settled? 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