Prompt

On page 4 of the Introduction to A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki includes a quote from the celebrated Black author, Toni MorrisonLinks to an external site., noting "'Race,' observed Toni Morrison, has functioned as a 'metaphor' necessary to the 'construction of Americanness': in the creation of our national identity, 'American' has been defined as 'white.' Not to be 'white' is to be designated as the 'Other' - different, inferior, and unassimilable."

Choose TWO of the following groups (African-Americans, Native-Americans, the Chinese, Mexicans, the Irish, and Eastern and Southern Europeans) we examined in Module 2 anddiscusshow each of those two groups was "designated as the Other" by the native-born, Anglo, Protestant, white majority in the nineteenth century and analyze how this "Othering" affected the two groups. Were there ways that they fought this designation? Did this designation change over the 19th century for your groups, or not?

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• Re-write the essay prompt in your own words (just the prompt, NOT the instructions). Identify the areas of the prompt that require further clarification. It's ok to say what you don't understand. That's the point with this assignment, identifying what we don't understand ahead of the due date, so that you have time to find answers.

Lay out a plan of action to write this essay by the due date. What steps will you need to take? Are there changes you need to make from how you approached the first essay to how you approach this one? What tasks do you need to complete? Where and how will you gather the information? What is your writing process? The more specific you can be the better. You could even include a schedule/timeline.