Ch. 5: Gendering, Racializing and Classifying: Settler Colonization in the United States

This chapter discusses the interactions between European settlers, Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexican Americans since the arrival of settlers in the 16th century. One of the many subjects covered is the formation and colonization of the present day United States mainly benefitted the Euro-American men who led it. African Americans were forced into slavery, and even after being freed, were not granted citizenship, treated as equals, and experienced severe racial violence. Native Americans and Mexicans Americans were forced off their lands through wars and legal manuevering and were also not treated as equals.