C Chicana-o-x History I

Catalog description

Term hours: 54 lecture. This course is a survey of the Chicana/o/x experience from the pre-European colonized era of North America through the Mexican-American War, emphasizing the experiences of Indigenous, Spanish, and Mexican peoples in the Southwest Borderlands to the period of the American occupation. Utilizing theoretical frameworks and methodologies from Ethnic Studies and Chicana/o/x Studies, historical themes and events will be analyzed through an intersectional lens that interrogates categories of identity and power, including indigeneity, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and religion. Topics covered include: Indigenous Mesoamerican civilizations; Spanish settler colonialism and imperialism in the Americas; the African presence in New Spain; "mestizaje," racialization, racial categorization, and racial identity; life in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands prior to the American invasion and occupation; and the War between the United States and Mexico. (UC/CSU, AA GE, CalGETC)