(Beyond the Shadow) piece called 'An American fraud every century' explores these dynamics in the period of the American presidential race of 1876 between (R) Rutherford B. Hayes and (D) Samuel Tilden.
Violence, land theft, theft of humans, genocide, racial oppression, and stolen elections are a key component of this miserable American experiment. Denial of these realities and a extremely short term memory by a racialized disciplined population is a key factor in this great American illusion. And a key factor of American 'whiteness'