Overview
first watch the video (who the f*** is columbus exterminate all the brutes video)
Directions:
**As with all Discussion Board posts, these are graded for CONTENT. The best way to earn a good grade is to explain your answer and why its significant for the time period referenced and/or for present day. You will not earn an A for briefly stating what the film says. I know what the film says :) I want to know what sense you make of it and what you think of it**
In an initial post, answer all of the following questions:
- How does Peck say humans participate in history?
- Why does Peck say few little American boys grow up wanting to be the "Indians"? Explain what you think he means by that.
- What was the dilemma for de las Casas, and how did it vary between Natives and Africans?
- Who was considered "Man"? How did that timing coincide with the Transatlantic slave trade?
- How does Peck say that historical narrative an exercise of power? What does he say our role is in this?
- In what ways did ethnocentrism merge into scientific racism?
- Why was Haiti the first real free republic in the Americas?
- How were the Irish depicted compared to the British, and how did this impact how Irish were treated historically?
- How is America supposedly being a nation of immigrants, actually a myth?
- During the Jacksonian period, how many treaties were made with Native tribes? What was the justification for the US repeatedly breaking them?