Mr. 历史老师戈登:
In 8th grade history's unit on Jamestown, Mr. Gordon posed the question, "Is it human nature to divide people by race?这一单元首先讨论的是《全球最大赌博365网站》绘制的纽约市人口地图, which showed that neighborhoods today are heavily segregated by race. 一些学生认为,人们通常更喜欢和拥有相同文化背景的人住在一起, 而其他学生则认为种族隔离可能不是他们自己选择的. We examined evidence on both sides, 包括英国最大赌博365网站种族偏好的心理学研究,以及20世纪导致居住隔离的政策, 比如Redlining.
We then went back in time to apply this same question to the Jamestown colony. Through analyzing primary and secondary sources about that period, 学生们得出的结论是, 欧洲, and Native American people did get along at first. 然而, 富有的英国地主开始担心仆人和奴隶会起来反抗他们. 在回应, they passed laws to keep their workers divided, such as those banning interracial marriage, 随着时间的推移,它创造了社会禁忌,使不同种族的人彼此对立.
在本单元结束时, 学生们开始反思自己在种族融合和种族隔离环境中的经历. 他们想知道我们研究的法律和政策对他们自己的生活有什么影响, and what forces had shaped their own ideas about race.
Here's an excerpt from an essay on the topic by 8th grader Tatiana Bresler:
“有时法律和规则可以在我们很小的时候就植入我们的大脑,它可以让我们觉得这些法律和规则是道德的,是应该相信的. 在过去,人们制定了区分不同种族的规则,其中一些至今仍影响着我们. In 1691, 弗吉尼亚州议会通过了一项法律,规定白人与其他种族的人结婚是非法的. The act says “It is enacted from now on, if any English or other free white man or woman shall intermarry with a negroe, 黄褐色的, 或印度男人或女人”. This law made it seem wrong to marry other races, but the making of this law also shows that other races were marrying each other, 因为政府为什么要为没有发生的事情制定法律? 这表明,负责隔离其他种族的人让公民和后代认为有些事情是错误的."