Name Course Instructor Date The “Heroic” Arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas: The Notion that “all immigrants are Criminals.” What forces created this narrative, and for what purpose? As a predominant master narrative among the Americans, South Italians’ immigration into the U.S, just like other people of color, sparked up fury portraying them as criminals. After Columbus “discovered” the Americas, he surprisingly found that millions of people were already living there. The press, in this case, the New York Times, was one of the major forces behind the narrative. The press’s purpose for creating the narrative was to further resist Italians’ settling in their country, insisting that they were to them as a pest without mitigations. Whose voices and
