SCSU Race The Power of an Illusion The Story We Tell Essay

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I need help with an assignment about the film “Race – The Power of an Illusion: The Story We Tell”

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Write a brief response to each of the following questions in response to the film “Race – The Power of an Illusion: The Story We Tell” (58min).

• What is the connection of American slavery to prejudices against African-descended peoples? Why does race persist after abolition?
• Contrast Thomas Jefferson’s policy to assimilate American Indians in the 1780s with Andrew Jackson’s policy of removing Cherokees to west of the Mississippi in the 1830s. What is common to both policies? What differentiates them?
• What did the publications of scientists Louis Agassiz, Samuel Morton, and Josiah Nott argue, and what was their impact on U.S. legal and social policy?
• What role did beliefs about race play in the American colonization of Mexican territory, Cuba, the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico?