Racial stereotypes and their role in the concept of Manifest Destiny by Justin Herndon
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Summary
The modern connotations of the concept of “Manifest Destiny” are generally of two diverging camps; One is a romanticized image of devout pilgrims, such as the Mormons, who left the crowded and sinful cities of the East for the freedom of the West, hoping to find a new promised land, or of prospectors who began life with barely enough money to keep themselves fed seeking the freedom and gold that lay in the far reaches of the frontier, gold that in later times would become a metaphor for the conceptual American dream and the promise of wealth for those industrious enough to look for it. Another school of thought is more closely rooted in the political realities of it, though admittedly has become somewhat of a mythology in itself in often wrongly discounting the earnest actions of some individuals, lumping everyone involved with the administrative and economic powers that motivated the Westward expansion.
Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- Preceding ideologies on expansion.
- Preceding ideologies on race.
- Manifest destiny itself.
- Evaluations.
- Conclusion.
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