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Week One |
Tuesday, September 4: |
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Introductions |
Thursday, September 6: |
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Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire: A History of
Latinos in America
Chapter One: Conquerors and Victims: The Image of America Forms (1500-1800);
pp. 3-26
Chapter Two: The Spanish Borderlands and the Making of an Empire (1810-1898);
pp. 27-57 |
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Historical Text:
James Monroe, Message to Congress, December 2, 1823 (a.k.a. "The Monroe
Doctrine") In Richard Hofstadter, ed., Great Issues in American History:
From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865; pp. 244-47 |
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Week
Two |
Tuesday, September 11 |
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Ram�n A. Guti�rrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went
Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 Chapter Two:
The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico; pp.39-94 Claudio Lomnitz-Adler, Exits
from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in the Mexican National Space Chapter
Sixteen: Racial Ideology and Forms of Nationalism; pp. 261-81 |
Thursday, September 13: |
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Ram�n A. Guti�rrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went
Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 Chapter Five:
Honor and Social Status; pp.176-206 Chapter Six: Honor and Virtue; pp. 207-26
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Week
Three |
Tuesday, September 18: |
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Ronald Takaki, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century
America Preface; pp. v-x Chapter One: The "Iron Cage" in the New Nation;
pp. 1-15 Chapter Three: Within the "Bowels" of the Republic; pp. 36-65 Chapter
Four: Beyond Primitive Accumulation; pp. 69-79 Chapter Five: The Metaphysics
of Civilization: "The Red Race on Our Borders"; pp. 80-107 Chapter Six:
The Metaphysics of Civilization: "The Black Race Within Our Bosom"; pp.
108-44 |
Thursday, September 20: |
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Ronald Takaki, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century
America Chapter Seven: An American Prospero in King Arthur's Court; pp.
147-70 Chapter Ten: The "Heather Chinee" and American Technology; pp. 215-49
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Week
Four |
Tuesday, September 25: |
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Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American
Racial Anglo-Saxonism
Chapter Eleven: Anglo-Saxons and Mexicans; pp. 208-28
Chapter Twelve: Race, Expansion, and the Mexican War; pp. 229-48 Rodolfo
Acu�a, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos; 4th Edition ONLY
Chapter Two: Legacy of Hate: The Conquest of Mexico's Northwest; pp. 41-56
Richard Griswold del Castillo, The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy
of Conflict
Chapter Five: Citizenship and Property rights: U.S. Interpretations of
the Treaty; pp. 62-86
Historical Texts:
* Appendix One: The Original Text of Articles IX and X of the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the Protocol of Quer�taro; pp. 179-82
* Appendix Two: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, as Ratified by the Uniuted
States and Mexican Governments, 1848; pp. 183-99
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Thursday, September 27: |
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David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 Chapter Four: Race, Labor, and the Frontier; pp. 75-99
Historical Text:
Juan Cortina, "Proclamation of November 23, 1859" The "Robin Hood" of
South Texas, in Wayne Moquin and Charles Van Doren, eds., A Documentary
History of the Mexican Americans; pp. 272-76 Tom�s Almaguer, Racial Fault
Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California Excerpt
from
Chapter One: "We Desire Only a White Population in California": The Transformation
of Mexican California in Historical Sociological Perspective; pp. 26-41,
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Chapter Two: "The True Significance of the Word 'White'"; pp. 45-74 W1600:
Latino History
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Week
Five |
Tuesday, October 2: |
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Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States Chapter
Twelve: The Empire and the People; pp. 290-313 Philip S. Foner, The Spanish-Cuban-American
War and the Birth of American Imperialism, Volume One: 1895-1898 Introduction:
pp. xv-xxiv Philip S. Foner, The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth
of American Imperialism, Volume Two: 1898-1902 Chapter Thirty: The Republic
of Cuba; pp. 655-72 Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos
in America Chapter Three: Banana Republics and Bonds: Taming the Empire's
Backyard (1898-1950); pp. 58-78 |
Thursday, October 4: |
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Richard Drinnon, Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating
and Empire-Building Chapter Twenty-One: The Strenuous Life Abroad: "Marked
Severities" in the Philippines; pp. 307-32 Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian
Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad,
1876-1917 Chapter Six: Children of Barbarism: Republican Imperatives and
Imperial Wards; pp. 221-59 W1600: Latino History |
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Week
Six |
Tuesday, October 9: |
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Raymond Carr, Puerto Rico: A Colonial Experiment Chapter One:
From Spanish Colony to American Possession; pp. 17-47 Pedro A. Cab�n, Constructing
a Colonial People: Puerto Rico and the United States, 1898-1932 Chapter
Four: The Colonial State at Work: The Executive Council and the Transformation
of Puerto Rico, 1900-1917; pp. 122-61 Chapter Six: A New Beginning and the
Growing Crisis of Legitimacy; pp. 198-234 |
Thursday, October 11: |
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James L. Dietz, Economic History of Puerto Rico: Institutional
Change and Capitalist Development Chapter Two: The Early Period of U.S.
Control, 1898-1930; pp. 79-134 W1600: Latino History |
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Week
Seven |
Tuesday, October 16: |
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Mark T. Gilderhus, Diplomacy and Revolution: U.S.-Mexican Relations Under
Wilson and Carranza Chapter One: The Mexican Question: Wilson's Intervention;
pp. 1-14 Chapter Three: The Punitive Expedition; pp. 32-52 David Montejano,
Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 Chapter Five: The
Coming of the Commercial Farmers; pp. 106-28 Ricardo Romo, East Los Angeles:
History of a Barrio Chapter Five: The "Brown Scare"; pp. 89-111
Historical Texts:
* Ricardo Flores Mag�n, et al., To the Workers of the United States, November
7, 1914 Appendix A in Colin M. MacLachlan, Anarchism and the Mexican Revolution:
The Political Trials of Ricardo Flores Mag�n in the United States; pp.
121-25
* Enrique Flores Mag�n, Address in Federal Court, Los Angeles, June 22,
1916 Appendix B in Colin M. MacLachlan, Anarchism and the Mexican Revolution:
The Political Trials of Ricardo Flores Mag�n in the United States; pp.
126-33
Mark Reisler, Always the Laborer, Never the Citizen: Anglo Perceptions
of the Mexican Immigrant during the 1920s
Chapter Two in David G. Guti�rrez, ed., Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants
in the United States; pp. 23-43
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Thursday, October 18: |
Mid-Term Essay Exam Questions will be distributed
at the end of class.
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Francisco E. Balderrama and Raymond Rodr�guez, Decade of Betrayal:
Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s Deportation: Adi�s, Migra; pp. 49-71 Repatriation:
El Regreso; pp. 97-125 W1600: Latino History |
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Week
Eight |
Tuesday, October 23: |
Mid-Term Study Period - class will not meet.
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Thursday, October 25: |
Mid-Term Essay Exams due at the beginning of class.
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Raymond Carr, Puerto Rico: A Colonial Experiment Chapter Two: Colonial
Conflicts; pp. 47-71
Historical Text:
Pedro Albizu Campos, Speech Given Before the Associated Press, 1936 "Puerto
Rican Nationalism," in Roberto Santiago, ed., Boricuas: Influential Puerto
Rican Writings - An Anthology; pp. 27-29
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Week
Nine |
Tuesday, October 30: |
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Rodolfo Acu�a, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos; 4th
Edition ONLY Sleepy Lagoon; pp. 268-71 Mutiny in the Streets of Los Angeles;
pp. 271-73 Manuel Garc�a y Griego, The Importation of Mexican Contract Laborers
to the United States, 1942-1964 Chapter Three in David G. Guti�rrez, ed.,
Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States; pp. 45-85 Virginia
E, S�nchez Korrol, From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans
in New York City Chapter Two: Background of the Puerto Rican Migration to
New York City; pp. 11-50 Chapter Three: Settlement Patterns and Community
Development; pp. 51-84 |
Thursday, November 1: |
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History Task Force, Centro de Estudios Puertorrique�os, Labor
Migration Under Capitalism: The Puerto Rican Experience Chapter Five: Migration
and Industrialization, 1930 to the Present; pp. 117-77 W1600: Latino History
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Week
Ten |
Tuesday, November 6: |
Academic holiday - no classes.
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Thursday, November 8: |
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Francisco Rivera-Batiz and Carlos E. Santiago, Island Paradox:
Puerto Rico in the 1990s Chapter Three: Migration between Puerto Rico and
the United States; pp. 43-62 Chapter Seven: The Puerto Rican Population
in the United States; pp. 126-51 |
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Week
Eleven |
Tuesday, November 13: |
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Eric R. Wolf, Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century Chapter Six: Cuba;
pp. 249-73
Historical Text:
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Speech to the Organization of American States,
at Punta del Este, Uruguay, August 8, 1961 "The Real Meaning of the Alliance
for Progress," in David Deutschmann, ed., Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution:
Writings and Speeches; pp.265-98 James Petras and Morris Morley, U.S.
Hegemony Under Siege: Class, Politics, and Development in Latin America
Chapter Four: Sacrificing Dictators to Save the State: Permanent and Transitory
Interests in U.S. Foreign Policy; pp. 111-43
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Thursday, November 15: |
Abstracts for final papers are due in class.
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Liliana Cotto, The Rescate Movement: An Alternative Way of Doing Politics Chapter Eight in Edwin Mel�ndez and Edgardo Mel�ndez, eds., Colonial Dilemma:
Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Puerto Rico; pp. 119-29
Historical Texts (Boricua):
* Pablo Guzman, The Party (from Palante! The Young Lords Party) In Roberto
Santiago, ed., Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology;
pp. 52-60
* Ronald Fernandez, Los Macheteros In Roberto Santiago, ed., Boricuas:
Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology; pp.60-74 Juan Manuel
Carri�n, The National Question in Puerto Rico
Chapter Four in Edwin Mel�ndez and Edgardo Mel�ndez, eds., Colonial Dilemma:
Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Puerto Rico; pp. 67-75 J. Jorge
Klor de Alva, Aztl�n, Borinquen and Hispanic Nationalism in the United
States In Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres, eds., The Latino Studies
Reader: Culture, Economy, and Society; pp. 63-82
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Week
Twelve |
Tuesday, November 20: |
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Carlos Mu�oz, Jr., Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement Chapter
Two: The Militant Challenge: The Chicano Generation; pp. 47-73 Chapter
Three: The Rise of the Chicano Student Movement and Chicano Power; pp.
75-98 David G. Guti�rrez, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican
Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity Chapter Six: Sin Fronteras?
The Contemporary Debate; pp. 179-205
Historical Texts (Chicano):
* El Plan Espiritual de Aztl�n, 1969 (Denver, CO) In Rudolfo A. Anaya
and Francisco Lomel�, eds., Aztl�n: Essays on the Chicano Homeland; pp.
1-5 * El Plan de Santa Barbara, 1969 (Santa Barbara, CA) Appendix in Carlos
Mu�oz, Jr., Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement; pp. 191-202
* Reies Lopez Tijerina, Letter from the Santa Fe Jail, August 17, 1969
In Wayne Moquin and Charles Van Doren, eds., A Documentary History of
the Mexican Americans; pp. 484-87 Suzanne Oboler, Ethnic Labels, Latno
Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States
Chapter Three: "Establishing an Identity" in the Sixties: The Mexican-American/Chicano
and Puerto Rican Movements; pp. 44-79
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Thursday, November 22: |
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So-called "Thanksgiving" holiday -- no classes. |
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Week
Thirteen |
Tuesday, November 27: |
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Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick, City on the Edge: The Transformation
of Miami Chapter Five: Enter the Cubans; pp. 89-107 Silvia Pedraza, Cuba's
Refugees: Manifold Migrations Chapter Twenty in Silvia Pedraza and Rub�n
G. Rumbaut, eds., Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity
in America; pp. 263-79 Mar�a de los Angeles Torres, Encuentros y Encontonazos:
Homeland in the Politics and Identity of the Cuban Diaspora In Antonia Darder
and Rodolfo D. Torres, eds., The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy,
and Society; pp. 43-62 Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick, City on the Edge:
The Transformation of Miami Chapter Two: A Year to Remember: Mariel; pp.
18-37 Chapter Seven: A Repeat Performance? The Nicaraguan Exodus; pp. 150-75
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Thursday, November 29: |
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Nora Hamilton and Norma Stolz Chinchilla, Central American
Migration: A Framework for Analysis Chapter Four in Mary Romero et al.,
eds., Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the
U.S.; pp. 81-100 Susan Coutin, Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants'
Struggle for U.S. Residency Chapter Six: From Refugess to Immigrants; pp.
135-61 Robert D. Manning, Washington, D.C.: The Changing Social Landscape
of the International Capital City Chapter Twenty-Eight in Silvia Pedraza
and Rub�n G. Rumbaut, eds., Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and
Ethnicity in America; pp. 373-89 Nestor P. Rodr�guez, Undocumented Central
Americans in Houston: Diverse Populations In International Migration Review,
Vol. XXI, No. 1; pp. 4-26 |
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Week
Fourteen |
Tuesday, December 4: |
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Jonathan Hartlyn, The Struggle for Democratic Politics in
the Dominican Republic Chapter Two: Historical Pathways: Neopatrimonial
Authoritarianism and International Vulnerability; pp. 23-59 Sherri Grasmuck
and Patricia Pessar, Dominicans in the United States: First- and Second-Generation
Settlement, 1960-1990 Chapter Twenty-One in Silvia Pedraza and Rub�n G.
Rumbaut, eds., Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in
America; pp. 280-92 Silvio Torres-Saillant, Visions of Dominicanness in
the United States Chapter Nine in Frank Bonilla et al., eds., Borderless
Borders: U.S. Latinos, Latin Americans, and the Paradox of Interdependence;
pp. 139-52 Luis E. Guarnizo, Los Dominicanyorks: The Making of a Binational
Society Chapter Eight in Mary Romero et al., eds., Challenging Fronteras:
Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.; pp. 161-74 Sherrie L. Baver,
New York's Latinos and the 1986 Immigration Act: The IRCA Experience and
Future Trends Chapter Ten in Gabriel Haslip-Viera and Sherrie L. Baver,
eds., Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition; pp. 302-27 |
Thursday, December 6 (last day of class): |
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Conclusions |
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Week
Fifteen |
Friday, December 14: |
Final papers due by 5:00 pm, in Center for the Study of
Ethnicity and Race office. |
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