Conversation

Colonialism

The following eight texts comment directly or indirectly on colonialism:

Sources

  1. Christopher Columbus, Letter to King Ferdinand of Spain
  2. King Ferdinand, The Requerimiento
  3. Red Jacket, Defense of Native American Religion
  4. George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
  5. Frantz Fanon, from Concerning Violence
  6. Eavan Boland, In Which the Ancient History I Learn Is Not My Own (poem)
  7. Chinua Achebe, from The Empire Fights Back
  8. National Park Service, Christiansted: Official Map and Guide

After you have read, studied, and synthesized these pieces, enter the Conversation by responding to one of the suggested prompts on pages 1118–19.