What are ways that colonization and racism affect our understanding of American History?

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  1. What are ways that colonization and racism affect our understanding of American History?
  2. Discuss the hidden origins of slavery (Ch. 3).
  3. How is race normalized and accepted in society as a “natural” part of people’s identity?
  4. Discuss the “the Land of Hope” (Ch. 13).
  5. How do economic models of White Supremacist culture (caste system, slave system, Jim Crow Era, indigenous genocide, etc.) reproduce coloniality, racial power, or anti-darkness?
  6. Discuss the clamors for social change (Ch 15).
  7. From your own lived experience, what is another example of racism or White Supremacy was/is this experience individualistic or systemic?
  8. Add your own link to an IG post, tweet, or Tik Tok and explain how it is an example of White Supremacist Culture or racism; OR Write your own question and incorporate course concepts to explain the importance behind your question (and the value of the potential answer).