Hello here’s the needed writing :
The legacies of racial formation are everywhere in our society, and our common understanding of race and ethnicity is reinforced through what we are exposed to through news media outlets, social media, culture, and the institutions around us.
An important goal for this class is to make connections between past and present, especially through writing. For this assignment you will select a current(ish) event/thing that is relevant to our course themes of race and racial formation we have already covered and write a 1-2 page reflection about it. Your reflection should briefly (and I mean *briefly*) summarize the thing you are writing about, but most importantly, explain how it connects to our class content and then add your thoughts and/or reactions to it.
Examples can include (but are not limited to) films, TV shows, art, music, sports, news/headlines, social media trends, memes, podcasts, etc.
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the current event you will chose please make sure it’s linked to the content of the class which i will include below.
The content are :
- The invasion and colonization of Ireland by the British as a template for colonizing North America
- The dehumanization (making them other) of indigenous people of the Americas and Africans
- The justification or argument for English colonization to “explore” and “settle” North America
- Takaki, A Different Mirror, Pages 26-48. Chapter 2: The Tempest in the Wilderness
- Europeans Invading/Colonizing the Americas This short video give us more information and a general overview as to European colonization and later immigration to the Americas. Please note that in terms of “discovery” that means to the European world, it was news to them since the land we now call the Americas and the Native people had been there centuries before the establishment European countries. : )
https://youtu.be/RS6YzGKySTgLinks - King Phillips War 1675This video will give you a good summary of King Phillips War of 1675.
https://youtu.be/uNXDplgft_gLinks to an external site. - William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest written