Kevin Bruyneel, Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and The Politics of Race in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) try to summarize the argument of the book in the first two paragraphs.
After the first two paragraphs, your response paper should be a mixture of analysis and summary.
Use your response to raise questions; explore theoretical and methodological issues; connect the week’s reading to reading done in earlier weeks; identify critical gaps (as well as accomplishments) in the readings.
