The Chosen and The Damned Audiobook by David J. Silverman

Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free

Title: The Chosen and The Damned Subtitle: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States Categories: America, Colonialism, History, Indigenous, United States of America Author: David J. Silverman Narrator: James Markert Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Release date: 02-10-2026 Language: English

Summary: A sweeping chronicle placing race at the center of Native American U.S. history, from the award-winning author of This Land Is Their Land.

When the colonial era began, Europeans did not consider themselves as “Whites,” and Native Americans did not think of themselves as “Indians.” Yet as a genocidal struggle for America unfolded over the course of generations, all that changed. Euro-Americans developed a sense of racial identity, superiority, and national mission—of being chosen. They contended that Indians were damned to disappear so Whites could spread Christian civilization. Native people countered that the Great Spirit had created Indians and Whites separately and intended America to belong to Indians alone.

In The Chosen and the Damned, acclaimed historian David J. Silverman traces Indian-White racial arguments across four centuries, from the bloody colonial wars for territory to the national wars of extermination justified as “Manifest Destiny"; from the creation of reservations and boarding schools to the rise of the Red Power movement and beyond. In this transformative retelling, Silverman shows how White identity, defined against Indians, became central to American nationhood.