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Assignment:

We are watching "A Native Perspective on the Buried History of America" with Mark Charles. It can be found here: Note this assignment is a little different from what we have encountered to date in class (!). But I wanted you to see a different perspective from what the first two-thirds of the class presented.

Please type up your answers to the following questions and submit them through Canvas (under the Assignments tab).

1) What is the Doctrine of Discovery? In what manner is it a "systemically racist document (idea)," according to Mark Charles?

2) In what manner, according to Mark Charles, is the "Constitution working" when the prison population in the United States is disproportionately composed of people of color or that women make 70 cents for every dollar a man makes, on average?

3) Articulate the underlying principles of the concept of Manifest Destiny. How do these principles inform legislation such as the federal Indian Removal Act of 1830?

4) Mark Charles argues we do not teach the history of the United States so much as the mythology of the United States. In this regard, please articulate the five dimensions of American identity and Charles's reformulation of each. For example, the first stipulates "Discovery/Dehumanization." If one accepts U.S. history as that of discovery, equality, expansion, exceptionalism, and Liberty and Justice for All-how might this impede racial justice?

5) What is "racial conciliation," as defined by Mark Charles?

6) Articulate Charles's conception of the "trauma of white America." In what manner is this trauma perpetuated by "buried history" and a refusal to unpack or examine what is buried therein?