Assimilation

Assimilation- Race: The Power of an Illusion, Part II, The Story We Tell used the term assimilation to illustrate how white society wanted the Natives to integrate into their society. They wanted them to become white culturally in order to become a part of society. They wanted them to speak English, have their own plantations and slaves, and become a part of white society by adopting white culture and giving up their own. Yet, they saw blacks as incapable of assimilation. Takaki also mentions that laws of many sorts were passed in American history to bar blacks from assimilating into society and relegating them slavery on pp. 55-60 of chapter 3 "The Giddy Multitude" in his book A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.