We Don’t Need Another (White Pioneer) Hero
<p>How has White Christian nationalism maintained its death grip on the American imagination for so long? What part do heroic representations of White pioneers on the American frontier play in reinforcing the myth of a quintessentially White America and obscuring the centrality of racial politics to the formation of American nationhood?</p>
<p>These questions crossed my mind as I read the last book published by the late great David McCullough, his 2019 bestseller <em>The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West</em>. I had picked up the book hoping to gain insight into the American life and times experienced by my ancestors who migrated from New Jersey to the Ohio River Valley in the years just after the end of the Revolutionary War.</p>
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