Schedule
Part I From Frontier to Border: Constructing the US-Mexico Borderlands
Week 1 Jan. 22
T- Introduction: Cabeza de Vaca, Transculturation & the New Borderlands Historiography
Th- From Borderlands to Bordered Lands
Young & Truett, “Introduction,” Continental Crossroads
Turner, “Significance of the Frontier”
Martí, “Our America”Week 2 Jan. 29
T- Texas Independence, US-Mexican War & the Treaty of Guadalupe HidalgoGriswold del Castillo, “Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo”
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Declaration of Texas Independence
Ramos, “Finding the Balance: Béxar in Mexican-Indian Relations,” in Continental CrossroadsTh- Research Project Working Groups
Week 3 Feb. 5
T- National and Racial Identity in the Borderlands
Reséndez, “An Expedition and its Many Tales” in Continental Crossroads
Jacoby, “Between North and South: The Alternative Borderlands of William H. Ellis and the African American Colony of 1895,” in Continental CrossroadsTh- Modernization and its Discontents on the Border: Cortina and Garza
Young “Remembering Garza’s Revolution”
Garza, “Proclama” and “Plan Revolucionaria”
Week 4 Feb 12
T- Colonizing and Americanizing the Border
Bourke, “An American Congo,” Scribners
Young, “Red Men, Princess Pocahontas and George Washington”Th- The Plan de San Diego
Johnson, “The Plan de San Diego Uprising and the Making of the Modern Texas-Mexico Borderlands” in Continental Crossroads
“Plan de San Diego”
Stern, “Nationalism on the Line,” in Continental Crossroads
Week 5 Feb 19
T- Commercial Capitalism, Segregation, and Braceros (1910-1950)
Montejano, “Reconstruction, 1900-1920,” Anglos and Mexicans, Part II, ch. 5-6
Ngai, “Braceros, ‘Wetbacks’ and the National Boundaries of Class, in Impossible Subjects
Th- Mexicans and Indigenous Mexicans in the Pacific Northwest
Fox and Rivera-Salgado, "Building Civil Society among Indigenous Migrants"
Stephen, "Mixtec Farmworkers in Oregon"
Kearny and Besserer, "Oaxacan Municipal Governance in Transnational Context"
All of these articles are from: Fox, Jonathon and Gaspár Rivera, Eds. Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States.
Part II Transborder Migrant Communities
Week 6 Feb. 26
T- Conceptualizing Transnational Communities
Kearney, “Transnationalism in California and Mexico at the End of Empire”
Rouse, “Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism”Maldonado and Artía Rodríguez, "Now We Are Awake"
Th- Transborder Migrant Communities in Oregon and California
Week 7 Mar 4
T- Gender and Sexuality in Migrant Communities
Th- Cross-Border Organizing
Week 8 Mar. 11
T- Mid-Term Exam
Th- No Class: Attend Gender Studies Symposium panel “Borders of Identity and Militarism”
Week 9 Mar. 18
T- Globalization, Labor and Remittances
Swanger, "Laboring in a 'Borderless' World"
New York Times, “Border Crossings: Western Union Empire Moves Migrant Cash Home”Paper 1 due: Literature Review
Th- Film- Maquilopolis
Quiñones, Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream, part I
Week 10 SPRING BREAK
Quiñones, Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream, finish over break
Week 11 Apr. 1
T- Maquiladoras, NAFTA and the Border Economy
NAFTA ReadingsTh- Oaxaca and Border Report
Week 12 Apr.8
T- Film- Señorita Extraviada
Th- Femicides in Juárez
Paper 2 Due: Field Site Report
Week 13 Apr. 15
T- New Mestiza Consciousness
Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera, 1-7
Th- Border Music and Dance
Wald, Narcocorrido,ch. 3, 10
De la Madrid, Nortec Rifa!, selections
Week 14 Apr. 22
T- The War Comes Home: Surveillance and Inspections on the Border
Dunn, Militarization on the US-Mexico Border, conc. and epilogue
Lugo, “Theorizing Border Inspections, Cultural DynamicsTh- Immigration Debate: Minutemen, Politicians and Immigrant Rights Activists
Huntington, Who are We?, excerpts
Katz, et al., “The Mexican Immigration Debate”
Week 15 Apr 29
T- Day Laborers
Film- Farmingville
Th- Group Presentations
Final Paper due May 2 at noon