Stephanie’s Reviews > How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States > Status Update

What getting the Greater United States in view reveals is that race has been even more central to U.S. history than is usually supposed…Race has not only shaped lives, it’s shaped the country itself—where the borders went, who has counted as “American.” Once you look beyond the logo map, you see a whole new set of struggles over what it means to inhabit the United States.