Part one of term paper
American identity has been created by many events throughout the course of history. This country was founded on the clashing and mixing of many different cultures and lifestyles. One of the most important periods of time for this country was during the period of conflict between Americans and Native Americans over land rights. Americans had ...

Part two of term paper
... as a “racialized other” and where race began to matter. This early thinking is what created our American identity which is based on race. In the early settling of this country, when the English first encountered the Indians they viewed them as uncivilized beasts. “The first English colonizers in the New World found that the Indians reminded them of the Irish” (Takaki, 28). To the English the Irish represented a lower and uncivilized class of people, a group that the English considered t ...