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Thurmond
Aspen Thurmond
Dr. King
English 2327
29 November 2016
Racism?s Homeland The subject of racism is a topic that can be dated back to early America when Native Americans were often mocked, beaten, forcibly relocated, and turned away when in need of food or help from Americans. While ?racism? is a blanket term for race, ethnicity, religion, and economic status, we can see that it?s a topic that is highly opinionated and controversial which is why perhaps people evade discussing it and or writing about it in order to ?keep the peace? if you will. Rather than focusing on just one Author or literary work that reflects racism, I?m going to look at racism as a whole throughout history to analyze the factors and effects of racism in post …show more content…
Racism in America is an issue that seems to have no light at the end of it. While it is not hard to comprehend that racism is wrong, it is hard to change preconceived ideas about a certain race due to what has been taught to …show more content…
I will look at the factors of early American racism and how it developed over time. We really start to see the beginning of racism in the 14th century when Europeans land on North American soil and decide to cause wars and massacres in order to seize their land. Those that were not killed during these wars and massacres were then forced to convert to Christianity and European culture in order to ?make the ?savages? more civilized.? The Native Americans were also forced to assimilate through institutions such as schools and Indian reservations. Native Americans were treated as if they were barbarians, but truly they were just doing what they needed to do to survive. They didn?t have the knowledge the Europeans did yet, so they did what they could with the limited recourses they had available to them. This is really the first documented account of racism in early America. It was manifested from one group of individuals who came across another group of individuals that differed from them and were made to be or feel inferior because of their skin color and culture. While slavery wasn?t established at this point it is what I believe to be the avenue upon which slavery was built. By the mid 1600?s slavery was on the rise and anyone with African decent was being forced to slavery within the colonies. In 1641 Massachusetts is the first colony to legalize slavery. This caused a greater divide
Thurmond
Aspen Thurmond
Dr. King
English 2327
29 November 2016
Racism?s Homeland The subject of racism is a topic that can be dated back to early America when Native Americans were often mocked, beaten, forcibly relocated, and turned away when in need of food or help from Americans. While ?racism? is a blanket term for race, ethnicity, religion, and economic status, we can see that it?s a topic that is highly opinionated and controversial which is why perhaps people evade discussing it and or writing about it in order to ?keep the peace? if you will. Rather than focusing on just one Author or literary work that reflects racism, I?m going to look at racism as a whole throughout history to analyze the factors and effects of racism in post …show more content…
Racism in America is an issue that seems to have no light at the end of it. While it is not hard to comprehend that racism is wrong, it is hard to change preconceived ideas about a certain race due to what has been taught to …show more content…
I will look at the factors of early American racism and how it developed over time. We really start to see the beginning of racism in the 14th century when Europeans land on North American soil and decide to cause wars and massacres in order to seize their land. Those that were not killed during these wars and massacres were then forced to convert to Christianity and European culture in order to ?make the ?savages? more civilized.? The Native Americans were also forced to assimilate through institutions such as schools and Indian reservations. Native Americans were treated as if they were barbarians, but truly they were just doing what they needed to do to survive. They didn?t have the knowledge the Europeans did yet, so they did what they could with the limited recourses they had available to them. This is really the first documented account of racism in early America. It was manifested from one group of individuals who came across another group of individuals that differed from them and were made to be or feel inferior because of their skin color and culture. While slavery wasn?t established at this point it is what I believe to be the avenue upon which slavery was built. By the mid 1600?s slavery was on the rise and anyone with African decent was being forced to slavery within the colonies. In 1641 Massachusetts is the first colony to legalize slavery. This caused a greater divide