Why did European landowners import hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans
to the Caribbean in the 1600s?
to work on sugar plantations
Oto make Africa easier to colonize
to form a military force to fight Native Americans
Oto teach them democratic principles

In the introduction of becoming mexican american, sanchez draws from stuart hall's notion of cultural identity (pg. 12-13). hall asserts that identities are enmeshed in "becoming and of being." they are subjected to the elements and context of history. explain what you think he means by the idea of becoming and being and explain how context fits into comprehending the american concept of manifest destiny.