JLo’s inauguration performance of This Land Is Your Land was meant to promote ‘unity’, but is it a ‘settler anthem’?
![Woody Guthrie is seated playing a guitar that has a sticker attached reading: This Machine Kills Fascists [Library of Congress]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/master-pnp-cph-3c30000-3c30000-3c30800-3c30859u-copy.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Gustavus Stadler is the author of Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life (Beacon Press, 2020). He teaches courses on US literature and culture at Haverford College.
JLo’s inauguration performance of This Land Is Your Land was meant to promote ‘unity’, but is it a ‘settler anthem’?
![Woody Guthrie is seated playing a guitar that has a sticker attached reading: This Machine Kills Fascists [Library of Congress]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/master-pnp-cph-3c30000-3c30000-3c30800-3c30859u-copy.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
In 1949, truncheon-wielding police officers descended on the racially integrated concert of singer Paul Robeson.
