exercise 2 analysis paper

My position for this paper is that the English created the difference in America. Because they were exposed to difference other than white men with guns, they did not know how to handle change so instead the idea of "less than white" was created. This lead the Indians and African Americans to be classified into groups and discriminated against. I will also be comparing and contrasting how the Indians and African Americans were treated. For this analysis paper I plan to reference and tie in and use quotes and ideas from Zinn chapters 1 and 2 and also Johnsons chapter 6 and 8. I am going to use the authors ideas and concepts in their articles to back up my position on the issue. From Zinn I plan to incorporate his information about Columbus and his first encounter with the Indians to Jeffersons encounters with both the African Americans and Indians into my paper and from chapter 2 his idea that racism is not natural but a product of human choice. From Johnson chapter 8 I plan to incorporate his concepts such as "Deny and Minimize" in the paper. Also from chapter 6 of Johnson I wanted to bring up the idea that we are shaped by family, schools, religion, and teachers and that from all of these institutions we learn to distinguish.