Overview
Description
U.S.-Mexico borderlands as a space and place of change and movement for disparate groups, including Mexicans, Native Americans, white Americans, African Americans, and South and East Asians from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The course explores borderlands history through lenses of race, gender, (im)migration, labor, transborder alliances, civil rights, violence, and political economy.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- describe the various forms racism and exclusion have taken in the United States since 1848.
- analyze and synthesize primary, secondary, and cultural sources.
- find and use historical scholarship and sources to answer a research question.
- present ideas in a clear and persuasive manner both orally and in writing, in accordance with the ethical principles governing scholarly inquiry.
- use relevant scholarship and historical evidence to analyze the experiences and struggles of various peoples within and beyond the U.S.-Mexico border.
- analyze and evaluate the theories regarding the conceptualization of the border and borderlands.
- identify scholarly literature on important themes and topics in Border Studies.