20th Century American Borderlands Place, Politics, and Memories of Transition

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20th Century American Borderlands: Place, Politics, and Memories of Transition interrogates the shifting relationships among constructions of borders, race, and citizenship in the United States. This course offers a comparative analysis of the ways in which many ethnic groups in the 20 th century encountered—and challenged—various geographic and political borderlands. The first half of the course offers a history of the Mexican and Canadian borders; the second half considers sitesof “ambiguous belonging” within the United States. Students will consider categories of the “citizen,” the “refugee” and the “immigrant,” and how each is represented within contemporary U.S. contexts. WRIT DIAP