- Chicana/o History: The Mexican American Experience in the U.S.

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This course explores the history of Chicanas/os, people of Mexican descent in the United States, from the Spanish colonization of North America to the present. It is organized chronologically, proceeding through the geopolitical and social processes that created and shaped the Mexican American community. Themes will include, but are not limited to, the creation and shifting of borders and borderlands, the development of Chicana/o identity, race and mestizaje, gender dynamics, labor and power, migration and citizenship, activism, politics, and religion and culture. We will pay special attention to the processes by which Mexican Americans demonstrated agency and resistance in the face of racial and ethnic discrimination and erasure.