What is “Race”?
- Combining cultural discrimination and religious intolerance with democratic beliefs.
- Historically, an educational process used in schooling in the United States to destroy a people’s culture and replace it with the dominant Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture.
- Systematically used to destroy the cultural heritage of :
- Native Americans,
- African Americans,
- Mexican Americans,
- Puerto Ricans, and
- Immigrants from Asia, Ireland, Italy and Eastern Europe.
- Native American Boarding Schools
- Puerto Ricans — 1898, the Spanish -American War
