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Answer at least three of the following questions in 5 pages minimum, 9 pages maximum:
1. What are the central tenets and critiques of internal colonialism, black pessimism, and black and Latino Marxism? (Gutierrez, Sexton, Dawson)
2. What is the long 16th Century and what are the central differences between Spanish and Anglo-American settler colonial projects according to Gerald Horne. (Long 16h century, Religion, Race)
3. How did the Spanish colonization of California Native lands give rise to the first forms of incarceration in California according to the book City of Inmates? (Catholicism, Mission System, enclosure of Native lands)
4. What is primitive accumulation and how did this process lead to the development of Anglo-American colonization of the Southwest and the development of American capitalism, imperialism, and eugenics as a leading ideology in the long 19th Century? (Phases of capitalist development, Mexicans, California Genocide, Chinese Exclusion, Eugenics, Poor Whites)
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The long 16th century denotes the period between 1450 and 1640, where three paths of national development emerged. During this period, the Ottomans took slaves from Africa and Europe, while the Spanish came up with an escape hatch by regurgitating for the freedom of the enslaved African population (Horne, 12). Furthermore, for close to one hundred and fifty years, until the culmination of the 17th century, thousands of Filipinos got enslaved by the Spanish, especially in Mexico. The net effect of this was that the reliance on slave labor in North America, a notion created in London, was unavoidable (Horne, 12). The slaves working in Florida originated from the southern part of Spain, even though some of them were Africans
