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You must explain why your chosen theme is a useful way to learn about a history of race and ethnicity in Western North America. 2. Describe the 8 historical events and explain how they relate to your overall chosen theme. 3. You must show how these events challenge the Master Narrative of American History. Master Narrative: America settled by Europeans, Americans are white Thesis: The labor and toil of people of color has shaped America as the great nation it is today, thus proving their membership into the American society. Their history is American history because they came to this land and shaped it during its creation. LABOR (Takaki 53) When English settlers came to America, they brought along with them human labor. They shipped over African slaves. After 1863, slaves were freed and became citizens of America. Their ethnoracial history reaches as far back as those of the English settlers. This marked the introduction of Africans into America, their generation later became the first African-Americans. (1619). The history of African Americans goes as far back as the history of European settlers. (Takaki 181) RR; spread of Chinese population throughout America (1865; Sacramento, CA). (Takaki 243) Laborers began settling. (HS 4) Latina domestic workers fill an important quota and function in the American society. They are American because they help better this society? (lec notes) Filipino immigration; http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/06/27/137403308/joseantonio-vargas-if-i-didnt-tell-those-lies-i-couldnt-have-survived Mexicans were recruited to fill labor quota=>settled here (Molina 60/165; week 10 Mexican immigration) (overview Japanese immigration) Chinese Exclusion Act (set the tone for future relations concerning Asian immigration) (Solnit 106-7) Visual representation of the migration of several ethnic groups to San Francisco and their place