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*** 6-8 SEN FOR EacH Questions ***Support arguments based on the Zinn’s First 3 Chapters
Chapters 1, 2 & 3 : Link book : A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
https://historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html
https://historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html
https://historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html
and outlines/notes/videos/lectures, etc. of these chapters. quote Zinn’s work using M**L**A Don’t use long quotes and EXPLAIN in own words the ans, having a quote from Zinn is not enough to respond. I do not want to hear him, I want to hear you.
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_sample_paper.html
Questions :*** 6-8 SEN FOR EacH Questions ***
1. What was the name of first European military base in Latin America, when, where and by whom was it created?
2. How does Zinn’s perceives Columbus account of his “discovery” of India to the Spanish Crown?
3. Why is Bartolome de las Casas history so relevant for Latin America? Does he tells all the truth about the natives in America? Explain?
4. How de Las Casas portraits the indigenous life in America? Give 3 examples.
5. Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison describes as genocide an event in the life of Columbus, what is he describing?
6. What is historian distortion?
7. What is ideological interest?
8. What is an ideological choice?
9. What is Zinn’s point of view about history?
10. What is the job of the intellectual according to Zinn?
11. Please explain W. E. B. du Bois quote, “There is not a country in world history in which racism has been more important, for so long time, as the United States. And the problem of the color line is still with us.”
12. Slavery as a social construction and part of an economic system has existed for centuries. Why did slavery become racialized in the United States and Latin America?
13. During colonial times, is the level of racialization of the entire American continent legally sanctioned?
14. What is the difference between servitude and slavery?
15. In a non natural, but rather social construct of a racialized society; which position in the social strata occupy the US Native American, the indigenous Latin American and the African American?
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